MRSA Notes

There is legislation in Illinois that we should keep an eye on - they are trying to pass a bill in the legislature that is accused of being too narrow in focus and not based on scientific evidence (House Bill 378 and Senate Bill 233). Michael O. Vernon, the President of Chicago’s APIC (Association [...]

This is a hard story to refute - three young men all got tattoos together at Lil Smitty’s, a Blue Island, Illinois tattoo parlor, and all three broke out with MRSA staph infections all over their brand new art. Illinois is soon going to be implimenting a new law for tattooing shops that will [...]

Great news in Illinois - from Jeanine Thomas, founder of the MRSA Survivors Network. She has been working so hard for hospital disclosure of MRSA rates, and has had a good measure of success this month:

Again this year I initiated MRSA screening and reporting legislation and in the last 3 months have been lobbying [...]

Don’t miss this Christmas story, from the Pekin, IL Times about one person’s Christmas spirit and how it has this year benefitted a family who has been suffering with MRSA. I am not going to share any of it, so go read it for yourself. Go!
Bless their hearts - all of [...]

This is great news in the fight against MRSA! In a University of Chicago study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists believe they have created a vaccine that offers significant protection from most of the strains of MRSA. Here are some specifics about the research:

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Sangamon County officials may have to face a large medical bill now that a jail inmate has had surgery to remove an infected abscess in his neck.

The county doesn’t know how much the final bill might be, but the cost of postoperative antibiotics alone could be more than 15 thousand dollars if the county doesn’t [...]

The Morris Daily Herald has an article about the newest doctor in Morris, Illinois, an Infectious Disease specialist by the name of Dr. John Bolden.
Bolden said one of the more important aspects of his position is infection control in the hospital. Especially scary is MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. It’s becoming more common [...]

“Two of the three bacterial strains were resistant to standard antibiotics. In all three cases, the disease progressed so rapidly that neither standard nor alternative antibiotics had an effect.
" This is the first time this unusual syndrome has been described in patients with a Staph infection." said Robert Daum, at the University of Chicago and [...]