MRSA Notes

Last year this time, you may remember reading Dream Mom’s dramatic story of her son’s battle with MRSA pnemonia.  I know I do.  She is an unbelievably strong woman, and a beautiful writer.  Anyway, she is reposting her story from last year, so if you haven’t read it, start reading it now.  And keep on [...]

Rhoda has started blogging over at MRSA Story, about her family’s experience with MRSA. She hasn’t been at it too long yet - it will be easy to catch up and then you definitely will want to follow the story. If you would be interested in doing the same thing, please feel free [...]

Did you know that your pets and other animals can carry MRSA? Well, they can. The most notable example is the story of Bella and Jill Moss, well documented at The Bella Moss Foundation (photo is of beautiful Bella). Also in recent news are two horses who have recently been diagnosed with [...]

Katy the Terrible has an MRSA skin infection and has been chronicling it in her journal.

He said the patients who come in with it often think they might’ve been bitten by something - mosquito, spider, etc. Sometimes it can happen with a cut or a scrape or a pimple. Whatever does it, it’s just [...]

This month, our channel-wide theme is the mission statement for our sites . We have a good many different sites in the Science & Health Channel - and I bet you will find as you read through them, most of our missions are pretty different. I could simply say that my mission here is to [...]

Picture a nurse, with a spider bite on her belly. As is usually the case when we hear “the spider bite story,” it turned out not to be a spider bite after all. For the last week, said anonymous nurse has been journaling her experiences discovering that her bite was a Staph infection, [...]