MRSA Notes

I have been contacted by a reporter doing a story on MRSA in Texas athletes:

I’ve contacted several high school and college athletic trainers about MRSA and they told me it wasn’t a problem, they’d neither seen nor heard of any athletes being infected, and were just telling kids to wash their hands more often. This […]

These are courtesy of my dear friends at RID:
1. Encourage students to clean their hands frequently
 
2. Parents, tuck a small container of hand sanitizer in your child’s book bag, if your child is mature enough to use it properly.
 
3. Educators, install dispensers of hand-sanitizer inside […]

Sadly, the catalyst for letting this MRSA problem out of the closet was the death of a Staunton River High School (VA) student, Ashton Bonds. My heart goes out to Ashton’s family.

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There is a wonderful article in LHJ this month on MRSA, featuring the story of CJ Jackson, son of my friend Francine Jackson. You can read the entire article at the RID web site - it is full of basic information that everyone needs to know about MRSA and CJ’s wonderful story that will […]

Jarvis Moss, the first round draft pick of the Denver Broncos, suffered a staph infection two years ago that brings back memories of our ordeal, and might for you too:

If I showed you film of what he was like the first spring — he was 215 pounds,” said Meyer, who became Florida’s coach two years […]

Results from a survey of 364 certified U.S. athletic trainers (presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) revealed that 53% of them had treated MRSA in the atheletes under their care:

Of the infections treated: 86 percent were in males and 35 percent were in females; 65 percent were in football players; 21 percent […]

This is a good basic video about the basics of MRSA and more importantly, the basics of prevention. Pay special attention to the examples of the types of wounds that you should always keep your eye out for on yourself and your children. Knowledge is your friend when dealing with MRSA, it can buy you […]

I am so sad to report that 12 yr old Carlos Don lost his battle with MRSA septicemia in the early hours of Sunday morning. My heart breaks for his family.

Carlos’s family said two weeks ago, he was at Camp Cuyamaca with 200 other Ramona sixth-graders when he came home very sick. Officials […]

Lots of personal MRSA stories coming out now, for some reason. This is the story of Roger Jenkins, a wrestling instructor and a candidate for the Canadian Olympic team in 2004. MRSA attacked him 2 weeks prior to the Olympic trials, he has now recovered fully. One particularly interesting part of his story […]

Isis Nizer is an 11 year old girl in Ocala, Florida who is now suffering septicemia resulting from a kick to the leg way back in November.

Isis first developed a blood clot in her thigh bone on Sunday after her knee injury. She was transferred to Shands Alachua General Hospital for treatment.
By Monday she […]