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 all over the tubes today - Dermacyn, the miracle water that heals MRSA. You’re not supposed to drink it, but apply it to your wounds. Dermacyn is manufactured by Oculus, and is a supercharged salt water solution that has been found to explode MRSA cells. This features/benefits info is from [...]

Sadly, I have decided to pull MRSA Notes out of b5media, as I am just a little too busy to be able to keep up my end of my committment with b5media, and since I love them so much, I don’t want to take from them without giving back at least as much. [...]

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 [...]

There is legislation in Illinois that we should keep an eye on - they are trying to pass a bill in the legislature that is accused of being too narrow in focus and not based on scientific evidence (House Bill 378 and Senate Bill 233). Michael O. Vernon, the President of Chicago’s APIC (Association [...]

Hmm. It is interesting to me how Mother Nature holds the secrets to taking care of us. Sometimes all of the artifical compounds in the world don’t hold a candle to something already here on this earth.
This isn’t the answer to MRSA yet - it remains to be seen - but researchers [...]

This is a hard story to refute - three young men all got tattoos together at Lil Smitty’s, a Blue Island, Illinois tattoo parlor, and all three broke out with MRSA staph infections all over their brand new art. Illinois is soon going to be implimenting a new law for tattooing shops 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 [...]

Have any of you tried this product yet? The Invisible Armor is a triclosan based product designed for households and all sorts of other businesses where you would come in contact with other folks as well as germs from other sources. The Invisible Armor is a skin protectant, with the primary benefit of [...]