MRSA Notes

I wish I could take the credit for this great list, but my dear friend Michelle, one of the many loving regulars on the MRSA forum, is the rightful author. This is a compilation of things we are asked and talk about all the time in regards to keeping your house clean while you are [...]

I was reminded again today of the email that makes the rounds every so often about another household bacterial hazard – your purse. Since household germs seems to be my little theme of the week, I thought I would dig this one back up for you. You can read one email about dirty purses on [...]

In a gesture of good will and marketing sense, PURE Bioscience has donated 200 gallons of its new silver-based high performance, low toxicity disinfectant, Staph Attack, to the City of San Diego’s First Responders. They have led the horse to water, let’s pray that they take a drink. Then invite their other horsey friends over [...]

This is a hoot – I guess I am not the only one reading about microwaving your sponges these days. Professor Charles Penn writes for the UK’s Daily Mail about how microwaving your sponge is a ridiculous waste of time: it’s a waste of time and we should stop being so obsessive about cleanliness. As [...]

Can you guess what they are? The answers might not be what you think: 1. Kitchen Sponges and Dishrags – you can microwave your sponges to kill bacteria – but be sure they are wet when you put them in – they have been known to ignite! I much prefer throwing out the sponges altogether [...]

Green Tea has so many benefits to your body, which is something that has been known for ages, and it has been long suspected that it has infection fighting agents as well. Now the specific bacteria fighting agents within the tea have been found. Now researchers from the National institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, Slovenia [...]

Consumers Union has had a very helpful site for a while now, where you can contact your legislators easily, via a premade email, about your MRSA concerns. They have now joined forces with RID, and have a letter about hospital acquired infections that you can send. Find it at this link, where you can simply [...]

AARP is featuring an article, Dirty Hospitals, this month in their magazine. The article is chock full of sad statistics (“Some 2 million patients get a hospital-acquired infection every year.”), and features Dr. Betsy McCaughey, from RID: A leading light of that movement is Betsy McCaughey, a health policy expert and former lieutenant governor of [...]

In an article published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, infectious disease experts warn of MRSA strains that are emerging and spreading with alarming rapidity across Canada. These are the same strains that have been working in the U.S. on our children and our athletes. The resistant bacteria is an “old foe with new [...]

In a general, but fairly good article on MRSA today, MRSA: Superbug or False Alarm?, NBC Dallas compares the nations fear of the ebola virus from a few years ago with the real and present danger of MRSA, and proclaims that MRSA is indeed a superbug and one we need to watch: In 1994, a [...]