You never think you are going to be in an emergency - we all know we should be prepared, but are you? During the nightmare that was Hurricane Katrina a couple of years ago, we had all manners of people having to walk for their lives chest deep in filthy bacteria-laden waters. What [...]
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Infections and Emergencies
February 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Tags: Infection Prevention · Louisiana · MRSA · MRSA in the U.S.
Possible MRSA Lesions Appearing on Katrina Relief Workers
January 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments
It has been a while since we have heard about MRSA in association with Hurricane Katrina, but it is back in the news. Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger reported over the weekend that some people who have been working in New Orleans during the deadly hurricane have been presenting sores and lesions on their skin believed to [...]
Tags: Louisiana · MRSA · MRSA in the U.S. · Mississippi
Educating St. Charles about MRSA Dangers
September 8th, 2006 · No Comments
MRSA is becoming more common in St. Charles Parish in Louisiana, and the media is trying to get the word out:
Four years ago, Luling pediatrician Juan Fukuda rarely saw serious skin infections caused by this bacterium. Today, the doctor says patients are coming to his office at the St. Charles Community Health Center nearly every [...]
Tags: Awareness · CA-MRSA · Louisiana · MRSA
Conditions in Evacuees & Rescue Workers After Hurricane Katrina
October 12th, 2005 · 4 Comments
“Among hurricane evacuees from the New Orleans area, a cluster of infections with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was reported in approximately 30 pediatric and adult patients at an evacuee facility in Dallas, Texas. Three of the MRSA infections were confirmed by culture (Figure and Table ). In addition, 24 cases of hurricane-associated Vibrio vulnificus and [...]
Tags: Louisiana · MRSA in the U.S.
MRSA in NOLA
September 15th, 2005 · No Comments
I have been fearful of an MRSA outbreak from the New Orleans victims of Hurricane Katrina, but haven’t seen too much about it yet. This article from MSNBC mentions several deaths from vibrio bacteria, which is something I am not familiar with at all, other than having heard of it. Here is the [...]
Tags: Louisiana · MRSA in the U.S.
Q & A About E. coli Measured in Katrina Flood Waters
September 13th, 2005 · No Comments
Press Release from the CDC.
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