MRSA Notes

This is a horrible story and is appalling in this day and age. St. Joseph’s General Hospital in Vegreville, Alberta Canada has been closed down to new admissions and to visitors for two major reasons. There has been a recent spread of MRSA through its patients, and in the process of investigating that [...]

We have heard lots about the antimicrobial properties of silver this past year, how it is being used on artificial body parts, and in pajamas to help kill MRSA, and now copper has the eye of the researchers. It is being trialed in a hospital in the UK, on door handles, faucets and fixtures [...]

This is SUCH a horrible story, and one that probably hits close to home for a lot of us, I know it does for me.
Little Luke Day, 36 hours old, died in a UK hospital 2 years ago, and his court case has come up in the UK this week, bringing little Luke back into [...]

This is great news for Canada - I sure hope the U.S. will follow suit.

Starting in January, 2008, the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation will compel virtually all acute-care hospitals — in addition to those nursing homes and other institutions seeking a stamp of approval — to provide the rates of methicillen-resistant Staphylococcus [...]

These are just a few general MRSA informational links that have popped up across the web over the last week - basic MRSA knowledge - worth a look:
MRSA Infections Becoming Resistant (US - Los Angeles)
MRSA Cases on the Increase (UK)
Infection Adapts to Human Resistance (US - Indiana)
California, Education, Indiana, MRSA, MRSA in the U.S., [...]

I am a sucky blogger, I know. I hate it when I get lazy (or in this case overwhelmed) and wind up missing important information! But, just in case it still may help someone, here is some information about a recall of frozen desserts that were contaminated with Staphlococcus bacteria, from late last week:

The Canadian [...]

One hospital in the UK is using sterile honey and seaweed to prevent MRSA infections in wounds. The honey is directly applied to the wound to seal it, and the seaweed solution is in the dressings and is purported to pull the infection away from the wound.

Doctors at the James Cook University Hospital in [...]

Here you will find a video from Harlingen, TX Channel 4, about “Mary” and her plastic surgery nightmare - a wound that woudn’t close and the ensuing bladder infection that finally exposed the problem - MRSA. If you have a wound that isn’t acting right, get it checked out. The doctor in “Mary’s” [...]

I received this in an email last week, and it is an eloquent plea from a concerned person (presumably from the UK) for the hospitals to do some basic things that could well help prevent the spread of HA-MRSA in hospitals. I totally agree with him - there are so many small things that [...]

The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), The European Commission, and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe have come together to convene the world’s most renowned scientists, health care workers and leaders in emerging infectious diseases at the [...]