MRSA Notes

This from the UK, interesting stuff.  How often do they wash those things anyway?? Hmm…

Privacy Curtains Proven Source Of MRSA Contamination

[…]at long last there is hard medical evidence to show that the privacy curtains surrounding patients’ bed are an important but overlooked source of outbreaks. The Department of Microbiology at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth hospital in collaboration with local partners has produced a report that conclusively proves a link between dirty curtains and MRSA. The results of this controlled study show that ‘The curtains surrounding the patients beds were the predominant source with comparatively high counts of organisms found’.

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