MRSA Notes

Over the last couple of years, Pennsylvania has had a terrible problem with HA-MRSA, as you can see from my archives on MRSA in Pennsylvania. The infection rate has dropped an astonishing 70% since employing more rigid prevention tactics. They are swabbing all patients for MRSA at admission and discharge, and putting those who are [...]

Here is another article about a “non outbreak” of MRSA in the same county of Pennsylvania: The superintendent of the Boyertown School District says two high school students have been diagnosed with MRSA. The infection is common in hospitals and also in young adults and athletes. The district sent out a letter to parents urging [...]

…it isn’t a reportable disease. What? That is really eye-opening to me, and makes no sense. This interview with a PA woman who is fighting MRSA, starts out with this statement. I guess I didn’t realize that there was a rule like that attached to the word outbreak. I think that you can probably look [...]

As I reported last week, Pennsylvania is at the forefront of MRSA awareness, and this week is no exception. The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) has been gathering statistics about MRSA in its hospitals with the intention of improving the quality of health care and reducing the associated costs in its state. You [...]

Once again, Pennsylvania is at the forefront of MRSA awareness – and this time they have a plan of action! The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System met at the end of last week and made plans to share infection prevention information with 17 other VA hospitals in the region and eventually with VA hospitals across the [...]

School started today here in College Station, TX, where we live. Our school system has been so good about making parents of their students aware of MRSA by including literature about it in their beginning of the year info packets – so good that I knew what MRSA was when Marshall got it ( almost [...]

As a distinct contradiction to the last post, an infectious disease specialist in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Dr. John D. Goldman says that he is seeing more MRSA in his community than ever before. I, too, have noticed a mighty lot of people from New England as a whole with MRSA in our forums and that email [...]

This is a new one for me – unbelievable. Be OH so careful in salons, especially if MRSA has been found in your community, and be sure they are just as clean as they can possibly be. Have your technician wear gloves if there is going to be skin contact. This woman, Amber Witherow, contracted [...]

From Pennsylvania’s The Morning Call Online : In the year since a federal jury ordered Bucks County to pay $1.2 million to two inmates who contracted flesh-eating staph infections in the county prison, at least 58 more inmates have been diagnosed with similar infections, prompting concerns that more lawsuits will be filed. Within a week [...]

Ya know, I am very against frivilous lawsuits, and really lawsuits of any kind other than towards someone who has intentionally hurt you – but I am so glad to see that an attorney somewhere has been brave enough to take an MRSA case on.  Maybe it is because it is against a prison rather [...]