MRSA Notes

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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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 [...]

Welcome to another Theme Day at the Science & Health channel at b5media! We have come a good way over the past year in helping make folks aware of MRSA and here is an overview of some of the most influential events of 2006.
January 2006 - ESPN Broadcaster Jack Snow dies from complications from [...]

This article, Pendulum, by Robert Klassen, addresses an aspect of infection control which baffles all of us who have been affected by infection. He offers up some reasoning behind what seems like a cover up by the government, hospitals, the CDC, attorneys who won’t take cases and basically everyone having anything to do with [...]

There is a mighty lot of talk amongst the MRSA community about why they cannot find an attorney to take an MRSA case against the hospitals. At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist (again), there IS some reason they won’t. Maybe hospitals are just too well financed and protected by the [...]

Oh boy - the more I read, the more info I get - apparently over the weekend, 6 more people joined the MRSA lawsuit in New Jersey, bringing the total number of people on the prosecution side to twelve. Good luck to you all.
The lawsuits allege that the county failed to properly inform its [...]

Two more people have joined the MRSA lawsuit against a New Jersey prision:
In separate lawsuits made public on Thursday, Philadelphia resident Robert Motley and Victor DelPiano of Atlantic County, said they began exhibiting signs of staph infection shortly after being locked up on unspecified charges.
The lawsuit alleges that the county failed to properly inform its [...]

Five employees of a New Jersey correctional facility have brought a lawsuit against the administrators of the jail. From NJ.com:
Kent R. Collins, Jerry C. Cora, Thomas J. Duffy, Agostino J. Fare and Beth Lindsay alleged in their lawsuit that the jail’s administration failed to warn them of “possible exposure” to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or [...]