MRSA Notes

I encourage anyone in New Jersey who has dealt with MRSA to get in touch with Ms. Campbell. These are great opportunities to spread the word about MRSA, and sometimes it is just plain therapeutic to talk about it. Ms. Campbell left a post on MRSA Resources, but here it is again:

I am […]

Haddonfield Memorial High School is the second school in South New Jersey to do battle with MRSA in their athetic facilities recently, with a reported 8 players infected as of late last week.
Haddonfield MHS has presented this MRSA factsheet on their website to help parents and members of the community with some basic information about […]

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 […]

Picture a nurse, with a spider bite on her belly. As is usually the case when we hear “the spider bite story,” it turned out not to be a spider bite after all. For the last week, said anonymous nurse has been journaling her experiences discovering that her bite was a Staph infection, […]

My friends Francine Jackson and Theresa Drew have been working so very hard this year on awareness of MRSA in athletics and are now promoting their First Annual Ricky’s MRSA Awareness Walk and Benefit:
July 2, 2006 from 2-4 pm
Keenan’s Irish Pub
New Jersey and Spruce Streets
North Wildwood, NJ
The cost is $15 for the walk only, […]

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 […]