MRSA Notes

A biomedical scientist stole bacteria from the hospital where she worked in order to end her life by giving herself septicaemia, it emerged today.Jennifer Bainbridge removed the bacteria - found in MRSA and E coli germs - from North Tyneside general hospital, a health regulator panel heard last week.The 28-year-old said she planned to use […]

From Sky News:
The former Men Behaving Badly star contracted MSSA - a variant of MRSA - at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.
The Sun says she will seek a larger financial settlement at the High Court next week.
Ash served a writ on the hospital which has now reportedly agreed an “interim” £250,000 payout.
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Leslie Ash, an actress in the UK well known as an advocate for cleaner hospitals, reportedly has initiated a lawsuit against the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London where she acquired MRSA during hospitalization in 2004. No more info available at this point, but I will update when I hear more.
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Here is a feel good story for you - Grant Cawte, who has survived more unsurvivable illnesses than anyone I can think of - is representing Great Britain in the World Transplant Games this summer in Bangkok.  Grant has come back from leukemia, a brain tumor, a rejected transplant AND MRSA.  All of that […]

If you can get through the shaky translation, here you will find an interesting article on infertility, written by Seye Adeniyi from the Nigerian Tribune. The article implicates Staphylococcus bacteria in infertility:

Most of the times, the problems could be traceable to Staphylococcus bacteria, provided the problem does not have spiritual attachment or reason, he […]

Australian Olympic swimmer Grant Hackett has been hospitalized with a blood infection stemming from a cut on his ankle. MRSA? Hopefully not, but unfortunately, its very likely.
He is in Beijing, the home of the next Olympics, doing some promotional work, and therefore is currently hospitalized there.
Best wishes to Grant and his […]

MRSA Support chairman, and friend, Tony Field has come out this week and accused Irish hospitals of discharging patients early, without MRSA testing, then when the patients come back in a few weeks, they call their MRSA “community-acquired.” All of this effort just so they can show lower infection rates. [source]
Is this an eye […]

Researchers are always looking for a new way to fight off these nasty bacteria. There is a very fine line between killing bacteria that are invading your body systems, and killing your body systems themselves. Therein lies the rub.
Hot on the heels of the protein research done at the University of Missouri […]

Saskatchewan health officials want to warn their communities that although their infection rates are smaller than many other Canadian provinces, they are still as susceptable to MRSA as the rest of the world. Interesting as compared to the rates in Santa Clara County from earlier, Saskatchewan had 1.219 cases in 2005, which rose to […]

I have just heard that the reason for the death of Anna Nicole Smith (which is to be announced officially on Monday morning), is a Staphylococcus aureus infection in her bloodstream (septicemia), along with a drug overdose.
You may remember that her former stepson, Pierce Marshall, who Anna Nicole was in a bitter court battle with […]