MRSA Notes

These are just a few general MRSA informational links that have popped up across the web over the last week - basic MRSA knowledge - worth a look:
MRSA Infections Becoming Resistant (US - Los Angeles)
MRSA Cases on the Increase (UK)
Infection Adapts to Human Resistance (US - Indiana)
California, Education, Indiana, MRSA, MRSA in the U.S., [...]

An 18 yr old Indiana teenager has suffered a life threatening necrotizing fasciitis infection, resulting in the removal of one of her breasts, after a nipple piercing. It should be noted that the teenager was also diabetic.

Dr. Robert Goulet Jr., a professor at the Indiana University Cancer Center, said the piercing created an entry [...]

Late last week, Indiana’s Lake County Jail went into quarantine due to an outbreak of MRSA skin infections among its prisoners:

She [Warden Caren Jones] said a number of diseased inmates are being kept together in isolation, and inmates who would normally be transferred to less restrictive housing, such as the work-release center, will be held [...]

From the people I have spoken with involved in the U.S. prison systems, I truly believe that the staff, as well as the inmates, work harder to prevent infections than they do in our hospitals and medical facilities - well, some of them anyway, I would be remiss to make those broad assumptions about all [...]