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Posted: November 12 2007 at 11:34pm |
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Aggressive staph germ causes cells to explode, researchers findLast Updated: Monday, November 12, 2007 | 10:57 AM ET The Associated Press The
aggressive antibiotic-resistant staph infection responsible for
thousands of recent illnesses in the United States undermines the
body's defences by causing germ-fighting cells to explode, researchers
reported Sunday. Experts say the findings may help lead to better treatments. The
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infection long
has been associated with health-care facilities, where it attacks
people with weakened immune systems. But many recent cases involve an
aggressive strain, community-associated MRSA, or CA-MRSA. It can cause
severe infections and even death in otherwise healthy people outside of
health care settings. The CA-MRSA
strain secretes a kind of peptide — a compound formed by amino acids —
that causes immune cells called neutrophils to burst, eliminating a
main defence against infection, according to researchers.The
findings, from a team of U.S. and German researchers led by Michael
Otto of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
appeared in Sunday's online edition of the journal Nature Medicine. The
research was conducted in mice and with human blood in laboratory tests. Both
hospital-associated and community-associated MRSA contained genes for
the peptides. But their production was much higher in the CA-MRSA, the
researchers said. The compounds first cause inflammation,
drawing the immune cells to the site of the infection, and then destroy
those cells. Within five minutes of exposure to the peptides from
CA-MRSA, human neutrophils showed flattening and signs of damage to
their membrane, researchers said. After 60 minutes, many cells had
disintegrated completely. "This elegant work helps reveal the
complex strategy that S. aureus has developed to evade our normal
immune defences," Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, NIAID director, said in a
statement. "Understanding what makes the infections caused by these new
strains so severe and developing new drugs to treat them are urgent
public health priorities." Dr. George G. Zhanel, a medical
microbiologist at the University of Manitoba, said the study was the
first he had seen that identifies the peptides involved. This
shows at least one of the reasons CA-MRSA is able to cause serious
problems, Zhanel, who was not part of the research team, said in a
telephone interview. Findings like this may help lead to better
treatments, such as ways to neutralize the peptides or to activate the
immune system to defeat them, he added. Dr. Clarence B. Creech,
an assistant professor of pediatric infectious disease at Vanderbilt
University, said every time scientists find a new way that staph uses
to make people sick, "we open up the field of developing new vaccine
targets and new drug targets." "This is one of the papers we can
look to as we develop new vaccines and drugs," said Creech, who was not
part of the research team. http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/11/12/staph-germ.html
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Posted: November 13 2007 at 3:33am |
Fourth student in county contracts MRSA
November 13, 2007
A fourth Lake County student in the last three weeks has contracted MRSA.
A student at South Elementary School in North Chicago was confirmed to have
the staph infection, said South Principal Steve Novak. The superintendent closed
the school Friday for cleaning after a parent informed the school of her child's
infection Thursday evening during parent-teacher conferences, Novak said. Friday
was an in-service day at the school for parent-teacher conferences, so no
classes were disrupted by the closing.
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Posted: November 13 2007 at 6:50am |
I did want to say some kind words concerning all the research you have done here. It is just that what is disturbing is that the flashlight just came on, while the situation has existed a long time. This always is well - the delay sometimes can be years... one of the things to look over is compared to the previous outbreaks.. how virulent, infectious, air borne, and hooked to the amoeboid infection are the cases coming up.
M.C.
note : the immune system attack augment is interesting. If this bug gets too proficient we have an air borne immune disease. That would make it a bit ominous.
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Posted: November 13 2007 at 11:29am |
Point well taken, MC. I too have been saying that all of a sudden staph, and especially MRSA, has the spotlight. There are several possible reasons why this could be happening now. 1) The report of the number of staph cases and staph deaths for 2005, just recently released, made it impossible not to confront the increasing threat from CA staph. I believe that was the jumping off point for the news blitz. 2) There is a definite increase in CA staph, and notably in CA MRSA. This trend has been kept under the radar until now. 3) The virulence of MRSA, especially when combined with flu, is definitely newsworthy. There are a few stories surfacing now of the rapid lethality of MRSA pneumonia, the destruction of interior organs with systemic staph, and horror pictures being shown on the MSM. Reporters can't be outdone on a breaking story, and when that 2005 report was released, it made MRSA fair game. I know that staph has been around a long time, mostly in the health care setting. It almost killed my FIL 25 years ago, but I believe that what we are seeing now is very different from the hospital staph. The term Superbugs may be overused, but when you look at the strep that is mutating (as seen in the deaths of the young children with "seasonal flu" combined with a strep infectin), as well as staph, TB, malaria, dengue, chikungunya, you see a general trend in the mutation and strengthening of well-known diseases, even mumps and measles.
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Posted: November 13 2007 at 2:25pm |
muriel46 wrote:
Point well taken, MC. I too have been saying that all of a sudden staph, and especially MRSA, has the spotlight. There are several possible reasons why this could be happening now.
1) The report of the number of staph cases and staph deaths for 2005, just recently released, made it impossible not to confront the increasing threat from CA staph. I believe that was the jumping off point for the news blitz.
2) There is a definite increase in CA staph, and notably in CA MRSA. This trend has been kept under the radar until now.
3) The virulence of MRSA, especially when combined with flu, is definitely newsworthy. There are a few stories surfacing now of the rapid lethality of MRSA pneumonia, the destruction of interior organs with systemic staph, and horror pictures being shown on the MSM. Reporters can't be outdone on a breaking story, and when that 2005 report was released, it made MRSA fair game.
I know that staph has been around a long time, mostly in the health care setting. It almost killed my FIL 25 years ago, but I believe that what we are seeing now is very different from the hospital staph. The term Superbugs may be overused, but when you look at the strep that is mutating (as seen in the deaths of the young children with "seasonal flu" combined with a strep infectin), as well as staph, TB, malaria, dengue, chikungunya, you see a general trend in the mutation and strengthening of well-known diseases, even mumps and measles.
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Another interesting point, don't have the story here, was a girl who got both staph and flu and that was definitely a finisher. I have been trying to correlate systemic, with encepth, avian, and a third culprit. This triad could hit us with something really tough to deal with. You might want to take a second look at the "endemic" hints concernig Avian in U.K. MRSA is getting very close to endemic in humans in the U.S. MC
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Posted: November 13 2007 at 4:47pm |
MRSA Reported At Another Pittsburgh-Area School
Another case of MRSA was reported Tuesday night at a Pittsburgh-area
school.
The Fox Chapel School District sent a letter home to parents after a child at
Dorseyville Middle School contracted the superbug.
The district said the child has already been treated for the infection and
has been cleared to return to school.
But the student must keep the infected area covered at all times.
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Posted: November 13 2007 at 4:49pm |
LEXINGTON3 Lafayette
High Students Have MRSA
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Parents of Lafayette High School students were informed Tuesday that three
students have been diagnosed with the antibiotic-resistant staph infection
MRSA.
A release from Fayette County Schools said that the three students are being
treated for the infection, and that there is a close connection in the three
cases and that they don't believe there is an increased risk for other students
and faculty.
The release said that school leaders have instituted an "intense cleaning
regime" as advised by the health department.
The release did not state whether or not the students were currently
attending school
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Posted: November 13 2007 at 4:56pm |
Child with MRSA in fair condition; Le Bonheur urges
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(Memphis 11/13/2007) This morning, doctors at Le Bonheur Children's Medical
Center said the child infected with MRSA is in fair condition. We're told the
child, who turns 11 years old today, is doing well but the MRSA has gotten into
his bone and tissue.
Also this morning, doctors at Le Bonheur urged people to remain calm and
noted there is no MRSA outbreak in the Mid-South. Doctors told us they treat
cases like this and though it is an extremely strong strain of staph, most
patients do recover.
Palestine-Wheatley schools, where the 11 year old attends classes, are closed
today. School officials are cleaning every classroom and common area with bleach
to be proactive. Doctors at Le Bonheur told us that's an OK idea but probably
won't really do much.
According to the Mayo Clinic, "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) infection is caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria - often called
"staph." Decades ago, a strain of staph emerged in hospitals that was resistant
to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. Dubbed
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), it was one of the first
germs to outwit all but the most powerful drugs. MRSA infection can be fatal.
Staph bacteria are normally found on the skin or in the nose of about
one-third of the population. If you have staph on your skin or in your nose but
aren't sick, you are said to be "colonized" but not infected with MRSA. Healthy
people can be colonized with MRSA and have no ill effects. However, they can
pass the germ to others."
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 5:50pm |
Governor Orders MRSA Panel
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RICHLAND, Wash.- Washington Governor Christine Gregoire orders the state
Department of Health convene a panel on how to monitor antibiotic-resistant
diseases like MRSA.
Right now, the Benton-Franklin Health Department doesn't track aggressive
disease.
Gregoire also wants to increase the public awareness about the potentially
deadly disease.
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Posted: November 14 2007 at 8:19pm |
I live in Seattle, there's been a bit of coverage on MRSA but not very much, just the usual 15 second sound bite
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Posted: November 15 2007 at 5:51pm |
State Confirms Two Panhandle MRSA Deaths in Two
Weeks
The state health department now confirms there have been two MRSA deaths in
the Texas panhandle in the past two weeks.
State officials say they can't reveal more details about the highly
contagious disease because of HIPAA laws. NewsChannel 10 has learned confusion
over legal interpretation is what's keeping a lid on infection information in
our area.
"I think it's easy to hide behind HIPAA because so many people don't
understand it," says Doctor Neese, who notes HIPAA is not meant to keep the
public in the dark. "The concept of HIPAA was supposed to apply just for the
individual patients but I think hospitals and other organizations are using it
to their benefit, kind of hiding behind it in a way," she adds.
One local lawyer explains while HIPAA normally does not apply to stats on
infectious diseases, there is an exception. "If the hospital or healthcare
provider determines that by releasing that information, an individual could put
two and two together and figure out an identity then they could in theory have
to say no," says healthcare lawyer Glen Sanborn.
Dr. Neese insists the public has a right to know about infection
levels. She says she's treated three patients with MRSA in her own office in
the last month. To check the HIPAA facts yourself, and to learn more about the
drug-resistant staph infection known as MRSA, click on the links below.
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HIPAAGenInfo/
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_mrsa.html
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Posted: November 15 2007 at 5:52pm |
A Tri-Cities day care confirms MRSA case
Thursday, Nov 15, 2007 - 01:48
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By News Channel 11 Staff
Reports
Your Tri-Cities News Source has learned on November 12th, East Tennessee
State University was notified of a confirmed case of Methicillin-Resistant
Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) at Little Buccaneers Student Child Care Center.
The MRSA case was reported in the Infant-Toddler secion of the center. The
confirmation was reported by the child's parent.
Little Bucs Student Child Care Center says it is taking extra precautions to
ensure proper cleanliness is occurring. The center also says it is cleaning
with appropriate disinfectants.
According to a press release, at this point, Little Buccaneers Student Child
Care Center says there is no indication that further measures are necessary,
except ETSU encourages students, faculty, and staff to practice good hand
washing.
Your Tri-Cities News Source is following this story and will bring you more
tonight on News Channel 11 at 5 and News Channel 11 at 6.
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Posted: November 15 2007 at 5:56pm |
Providence Bus Monitor Diagnosed With MRSA
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) -- Eyewitness News has learned a local school bus
monitor has been diagnosed with MRSA.
Wednesday night parents in Providence were notified of the situation through
a mass phone alert. Today, letters will be sent home with students.
A day after we learned a school bus monitor was diagnosed with MRSA, parents
sent their kids to class after being told things are okay.
Eyewitness News has learned that parents of students at two Providence
elementary schools; Martin Luther King and Carl Lauro elementary school were
called Wednesday night and told the MRSA situation is being dealt with.
Officials confirm bus number 136 was running with a monitor diagnosed with a
MRSA skin infection. The so-called "Superbug" staph infection is nicknamed that
because it's often resistant to most medications and can be deadly in those with
weak immune systems.
Today, school officials hope to put certain fears to rest, saying it's "all
clear" for the kids to ride the bus and be at school.
And the parents we spoke to say they're not worried.
"The phone call seemed to indicate they'd done everything they needed to do
to ensure the safety of the children and I'm sure the school system would not
put any of the children at risk," says of mother of two students, Kim
Lawrence.
"As long as the problem is being taken care of, I don't have a problem with
it," adds Lawrence.
No one will comment on specifics of the infected monitor's current work
status. But the health department says as long as the infection is covered and
being treated, there's no reason to go into hiding.
For a look at the school superintendents statement on the issue, click on
the provided link within this story.
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Posted: November 16 2007 at 3:37am |
Superbug Spreads Throughout Area Schools
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The Superbug continues to spread throughout area schools.
This time, a student at Bay Village Elementary school has become
infected.
The student has already sought treatment and has been released from the
hospital.
This is Bay Village's second MRSA case in less than a month.
A student at the high school was also infected.
19 Action News has also learned that a high school student at Nordonia has
been stricken with the Superbug.
The student has since been treated and has returned to school.
District officials say they have thoroughly disinfected the school and buses
as soon as they were notified of the potentially hazardous health
situation.
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Posted: November 16 2007 at 10:27am |
Most if not all reported cases here in Washington state have been in schools.
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Posted: November 16 2007 at 3:20pm |
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Aggressive staph germ causes cells to explode, researchers findLast Updated: Monday, November 12, 2007 | 10:57 AM ET The Associated Press The
aggressive antibiotic-resistant staph infection responsible for
thousands of recent illnesses in the United States undermines the
body's defences by causing germ-fighting cells to explode, researchers
reported Sunday. Experts say the findings may help lead to better treatments. The
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infection long
has been associated with health-care facilities, where it attacks
people with weakened immune systems. But many recent cases involve an
aggressive strain, community-associated MRSA, or CA-MRSA. It can cause
severe infections and even death in otherwise healthy people outside of
health care settings. The CA-MRSA
strain secretes a kind of peptide — a compound formed by amino acids —
that causes immune cells called neutrophils to burst, eliminating a
main defence against infection, according to researchers.The
findings, from a team of U.S. and German researchers led by Michael
Otto of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
appeared in Sunday's online edition of the journal Nature Medicine. The
research was conducted in mice and with human blood in laboratory tests. Both
hospital-associated and community-associated MRSA contained genes for
the peptides. But their production was much higher in the CA-MRSA, the
researchers said. The compounds first cause inflammation,
drawing the immune cells to the site of the infection, and then destroy
those cells. Within five minutes of exposure to the peptides from
CA-MRSA, human neutrophils showed flattening and signs of damage to
their membrane, researchers said. After 60 minutes, many cells had
disintegrated completely. "This elegant work helps reveal the
complex strategy that S. aureus has developed to evade our normal
immune defences," Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, NIAID director, said in a
statement. "Understanding what makes the infections caused by these new
strains so severe and developing new drugs to treat them are urgent
public health priorities." Dr. George G. Zhanel, a medical
microbiologist at the University of Manitoba, said the study was the
first he had seen that identifies the peptides involved. This
shows at least one of the reasons CA-MRSA is able to cause serious
problems, Zhanel, who was not part of the research team, said in a
telephone interview. Findings like this may help lead to better
treatments, such as ways to neutralize the peptides or to activate the
immune system to defeat them, he added. Dr. Clarence B. Creech,
an assistant professor of pediatric infectious disease at Vanderbilt
University, said every time scientists find a new way that staph uses
to make people sick, "we open up the field of developing new vaccine
targets and new drug targets." "This is one of the papers we can
look to as we develop new vaccines and drugs," said Creech, who was not
part of the research team. http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/11/12/staph-germ.html
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Thanks to Rickk from P F I - http://**********/viewtopic.php?t=1835&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30Study shows pig farms a source of MRSA08 Nov 2007 "Study
shows animal agriculture as a source of Methicillin-resistant
Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA). The deadly bacteria once thought only to
occur in hospitals and has caused up to 19,000 deaths in 2005 in the US
- nearly 2,000 more victims than HIV/AIDS killed that year. The new
study (Khanna et al. 2007), published in Veterinary Microbiology,
identified MRSA on 45% of 20 Ontario farms in nearly one in four pigs
and one in five farmers. A strain of bacteria common to human MRSA
infections in Canada was found in the Ontario pigs and pig farmers
studied. Possible sourcePrevious studies pointed
to MRSA occurring mainly in hospitals, however, the new Veterinary
Microbiology study indicates that pig farms may be a possible source of
this infection. Activists are calling on Congress to order the
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate whether the surge
in MRSA infections (100,000 in 2005) is caused by the use of human antibiotics in animal agriculture. (Are they finally realizing this or finally admitting the possibility? I would think the former.)David
Wallinga, MD, Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade
Policy’s Food and Health Programme, stated that in view of the latest
findings that pig farms may be a source of MRSA, the FDA and other
agencies should receive funding quickly to carry out sampling." http://www.pigprogress.net/news/id1602-35314/study_shows_pig_farms_a_source_of_mrsa.html_________________
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Posted: November 16 2007 at 6:05pm |
Student at Pickerington Elementary School has
MRSA
PICKERINGTON — Pickerington Elementary School was informed today that a
student has been diagnosed with the staph infection methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). This student was under the care of a physician and
is safe to return to school. The cleaning products used by Pickerington
Local School custodians kills 99.9 percent of germs associated with many
illnesses, including MRSA, according to a news release by the school district.
Over the past few weeks, school district custodians have enhanced their routine
services. In addition, all of the busses that Petermann Transportation uses to
transport Pickerington students are thoroughly cleaned on a daily basis.
Common signs of a MRSA skin infection include redness, warmth, swelling and
tenderness. Often a MRSA infection will look like a spider bite, boil, abscess
or pimple. If left untreated, it could progress into a more serious
illness. Studies in health care and community settings show skin-to-skin
contact, direct contact with infected wound drainage or contact with
contaminated surfaces or things such as sports equipment as the likely sources
of transmission. MRSA skin infections are not spread through the air.
For more specific information about this infection, please
visit the Ohio Department of Health Web site at: www.odh.ohio.gov. Should you
have any additional questions or information related to this issue please feel
free to contact the school’s office at (614) 833-2115.
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Posted: November 16 2007 at 6:10pm |
Pem. Twp. schools report MRSA casesBy JASON HARRISBurlington County Times
PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP — A middle-school student and a teacher's aide have been
diagnosed with MRSA bacterial infections in the past eight days, but the
Burlington County Health Department said the cases probably are coincidental and
not evidence of a larger outbreak.
School district spokesman Mike Pinto said one student at Helen Fort Middle
School was diagnosed Tuesday and a teacher's aide at Aletta Crichton School
reported contracting the infection Nov. 7.
Barbara Greco, district director of student personnel services, added that a
custodian at Crichton who had been previously infected developed further
infection in mid-August and returned to work after a few days.
A boy who attends preschool at an off-campus location was diagnosed with the
infection in October, but Greco said he missed only two days of school.
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Posted: November 16 2007 at 6:15pm |
'Superbug' cited in Hawaii singer's death
By Christie Wilson Advertiser
Neighbor Island Editor
Test results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed
that well-known Maori entertainer Rhonda Bryers died of the drug-resistant
"superbug" that has been attracting national attention.
Bryers, 55, died Sept. 28 at her 'Aiea Heights home after falling ill from an
infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, said
Honolulu Medical Examiner Dr. Kanthi De Alwis.
Bryers did not have any external wounds or other obvious entry points for the
bacteria, which is probably why she was not diagnosed with a staph infection
before her death, De Alwis said. Because she died unexpectedly at home, her
death was investigated by the medical examiner.
Bryers used just her first name, Rhonda, on stage.
Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Gayle Suzuki said she believes this is the only
MRSA case her office has seen in at least five years. The medical examiner
investigates cases where the victim dies at home. There have been other
MRSA-related deaths in hospitals.
MRSA infections can range from mild skin infections such as pimples and boils
to more severe infections of the bloodstream and lungs. Because the infection
usually is transmitted via contact with contaminated items, good hygiene,
especially thorough hand-washing, remains the best defense against acquiring the
bacteria, experts said.
Suzuki said a 51-year-old O'ahu woman died at home of a staph infection in
July, but it did not involve MRSA. Just as in Bryers' case, the woman complained
of flu-like symptoms but did not have a festering wound or other apparent entry
point.
Staph infections are not a reportable illness in Hawai'i, so there are no
government data on how many cases or deaths have occurred here. Department of
Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo said that in preparation for staph becoming a
notifiable condition, her agency is developing a system to provide basic data on
infections.
The private, nonprofit Hawaii Health Information Corp. reported 2,112 MRSA
hospitalizations in 2006, a more than twentyfold increase from 1995, when only
97 hospital cases were reported. A CDC study released last month said MRSA
caused more than 94,000 life-threatening infections and nearly 19,000 deaths in
the United States in 2005.
De Alwis said that at the time Bryers succumbed to sepsis, the infection was
rampant in her bloodstream and had ravaged her internal organs.
OTHERS STRICKEN
Bryers' son, John Ruddock, only yesterday learned that his mother had MRSA.
He said three other people living in the house were sick with pneumonia before
Bryers fell ill with a 105-degree fever, chills and other flu-like symptoms. "We
were all getting sick at the same time, and she caught it last," he said.
"Everyone thought it was the flu."
After several days, Bryers went to her physician, who prescribed antibiotics,
he said. Two to three days later, she died at home.
Ruddock, 20, said that the day before his mother died she complained of body
aches but did not appear to be gravely ill. "She seemed pretty fine," he
said.
Bryers had undergone surgery in August and fully recovered, said Ruddock, in
a telephone interview from New Zealand, where he is recording an album of island
and reggae music.
De Alwis said she does not believe the surgery was a factor in how Bryers
acquired the staph infection, which remains a mystery. Bryers also did not have
any other health conditions before she got sick, she said.
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
Infectious disease expert Dr. Alan Tice said it is well known that viral
influenza is a setup for bacterial infections with staph, pneumococcus, and
Hemophilus influenza.
"I have seen people with an apparent viral infection, especially influenza,
develop a severe bacterial infection a few days later, likely due to immune
depression from the virus. Some die and staph is a common culprit," he
said.
About 30 percent of people carry the bacteria on their skin or in their nasal
passage without symptoms. Infections normally occur when the staph bacteria
enter the body through a cut in the skin, but it is not uncommon for there to be
no obvious external infection, said Tice, a private physician who also works at
the University of Hawai'i John A. Burns School of Medicine.
"Even patients admitted to the hospital with staph in their blood may have no
obvious entrance wound, but it is not a big surprise, with a third of people
harboring it normally," Tice said. "Just picking your nose or masticating might
do it."
Only about 5 percent of all staph infections involve antibiotic-resistant
strains, according to Tice. He said researchers still have a lot to learn about
infectious diseases, including staph, "and the extraordinary micro-environment
we live and die in."
Staph infections, including MRSA, occur most frequently in people in
hospitals and healthcare facilities such as nursing homes and dialysis centers
who have weakened immune systems, and in those who have undergone medical
procedures in the previous year.
Pacific Islanders, the elderly and the homeless have been found to be more
susceptible.
Reach Christie Wilson at cwilson@honoluluadvertiser.com.
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Posted: November 17 2007 at 5:33pm |
MRSA found at Palm Beach County elementary school
GREENACRES, Fla. (AP) - Officials say a case of the MRSA
staph infection was found at a Palm Beach County school.
The principal at Heritage Elementary School in Greenacres sent out letters to
parents on Thursday reporting the school had three cases, but only one was found
Friday when the Health Department investigated.
A health department spokesman says the case is being treated, and there is no
longer any threat at the school.
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Posted: November 17 2007 at 5:37pm |
Briefs: Superbug case reported
Another case of the staph superbug has turned up at a Palatine
school. A student at Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211's
Academy-North alternative school has come down with the MRSA infection, or
methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.
No details on the student's
condition were given, though, in a letter to the community. School officials
said the student is being treated and will return to school only with a doctor's
clearance. MRSA has been increasingly seen outside of hospitals and has mostly
been associated with skin infections that in rare cases have severe
complications. Health officials, who have been in consultation with District
211, recommend basic hygiene to help control the spread of MRSA, such as
hand-washing, keeping wounds covered and not sharing personal items such as
towels or water bottles.
Earlier this fall, cases were reported at Palatine High
School and schools elsewhere in the suburbs. Academy-North opened in 2005 at 335
E. Illinois Ave. and serves students with behavioral or emotional
challenges.
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Posted: November 18 2007 at 7:23am |
Young Elementary student may have MRSABurlington County Times (Philly)
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP — A student at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School has
been diagnosed with a potential case of MRSA, a bacteria that causes skin
infections.
The student is being cared for by a physician, according to Burlington
Township School District officials.
The school district sent an e-mail alert informing township residents
Friday.
In response to the MRSA case, the school district has deployed additional
custodial staff to the Young School to re-disinfect classrooms, physical
education spaces, restrooms, playground equipment, the cafeteria and other
common areas. Restrooms, including those in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten
areas will be cleaned throughout the day. The district has also purchased
alcohol-based hand sanitizer for all classrooms, according to school district
officials.
MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is a type of bacteria
that is resistant to certain antibiotics such as penicillin and amoxicillin,
according to the federal Centers for Disease Control.
The district has posted additional information about MRSA and how to control
the spread of the bacteria on its Web site at http://www.burltwpsch.org/.
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Posted: November 18 2007 at 7:27am |
MRSA case reported in Alma
By LINDA GITTLEMAN
Gratiot Managing Editor
Alma Public Schools reported Saturday one
confirmed case of MRSA, the drug resistant staph infection.
Superintendent
Don Pavlik said schools will open Monday as scheduled. The female high school
student is believed to have contracted the infection outside of school. She is
now being treated at Carson City Hospital, Pavlik said.
The student last attended classes on Monday and was admitted to the hospital
on Thursday. Following a pre-planned schedule unrelated to the infection,
schools were closed on Thursday and Friday, he said.
Because the student's parents had kept officials informed of their daughter's
infection, school officials had been aware of the possibility of MRSA and extra
cleaning and disinfection had taken place during the two-day break.
MRSA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas was confirmed late
Friday.
The student will not return to school until she has a doctor's clearance,
Pavlik said.
School officials had custodial crews on extra duty before this, because
another student developed an infection earlier this month. That student's
infection, however, turned out not to be MRSA. With rumors and a lot of
publicity concerning MRSA, Pavlik said he wanted information to be released to
parents as soon as possible. Letters will go out to parents on Monday, as well,
he said.
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Posted: November 19 2007 at 3:26pm |
3 Cases Of 'Superbug' Reported At Grayslake H.S.GRAYSLAKE, Ill
(Lake County News-Sun) ― Grayslake High School facilities
will get a major cleaning over the Thanksgiving break in response to three
confirmed cases of MRSA among students in the district.
Students were instructed to bring all personal belongings home from
their lockers over the break to accommodate an "extensive, thorough" cleaning,
according to a letter to district parents from Supt. Catherine
Finger.
The district has also installed wall-mounted waterless hand cleanser
dispensers in each classroom, along with instructions on ways to limit the
spread of staph infections.
MRSA is an antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus, a
bacterium that is commonly carried in the nose and on the skin of healthy
people. The bacterium is often referred to as "staph."
Over the past 20 years, MRSA infections have occurred among patients in
hospitals or long-term care facilities, but they are becoming more common in
otherwise healthy persons who have not had contact with health care personnel or
patients. These infections are known as community-associated MRSA
infections.
In addition to the Grayslake High School cases, two MRSA cases have
been reported among students in the Lake Villa Elementary School District, one
in the Woodland School District and one in South Elementary School in North
Chicago.
Dr. Victor Plotkin, an epidemiologist with the Lake County Health
Department, said none of the Lake County incidents constitute an outbreak, which
requires three lab-confirmed cases of MRSA that appear to be related to one
another.
Plotkin said that because MRSA is usually spread through close contact,
preventative measures such as frequent handwashing and not sharing personal
items are effective in avoiding it. MRSA is not spread through the air.
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 5:28pm |
Hurst Teacher Contracts MRSA
HURST, Texas -- A Hurst elementary school will under go
daily disinfection after a teacher was diagnosed with the drug-resistant strain
of staph.
Officials from the Hurst-Euless-Bedford school district said a
fourth-grade teacher at Donna Park Elementary School contracted Methicillin
resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- MRSA.
The teacher is on medical leave and the school is taking extra
precautions to protect students, such as cleaning bathrooms and classrooms each
day, officials said.
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 5:31pm |
Metro Student Diagnosed With MRSA An Edmond High School student has been diagnosed with MRSA, a
drug-resistant staph infection, authorities said.
KOCO ChannelOklahoma.com
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 5:33pm |
MRSA Reported At Another Pittsburgh-Area High School
Another case of MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, has
been reported at a Pittsburgh-area school district.
The principal at Bethel Park High School sent a letter to parents this week,
alerting them that a football player was diagnosed with the staph infection.
Parents and students are urged to take measures to keep themselves safe, like
washing their hands and not sharing towels
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 5:37pm |
Smyrna School District not immune to MRSA virus (Delaware) Three cases
of infection confirmed in local schoolsBy Jennifer
Sprague
Staff writer
A strain of staph infections that is resistant to some antibiotics has
cropped up in Smyrna schools.
Superintendent Debbie Wicks confirmed three cases of MRSA,
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but did not disclose which
school(s) the students attend.
In a letter to parents dated November 8, Wicks said that the affected
students in Smyrna “promptly went to the doctor, are receiving appropriate
antibiotics and no longer pose a threat.”
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 5:38pm |
Grayslake School To Get MRSA ScrubdownGRAYSLAKE, Ill. (Lake County News-Sun) ―
Grayslake High School facilities will get a major cleaning over the
Thanksgiving break in response to three confirmed cases of MRSA among students.
Students were told to bring all personal belongings home from their
lockers over the break to accommodate an "extensive, thorough" cleaning,
according to a letter from district Supt. Catherine Finger.
The far
north suburban district has also installed wall-mounted, waterless hand cleanser
dispensers in each classroom.
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 5:39pm |
Bethel Park Football Player Contracts MRSA
Parents, Students Notified About Staph Infection
POSTED: 12:30 pm EST November 20, 2007
UPDATED: 2:26 pm EST November 20, 2007
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 5:41pm |
MRSA Hits 2 More Local School Districts
POSTED: 12:20 pm EST November 20, 2007
UPDATED: 12:44 pm EST November 20, 2007
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 5:44pm |
9-Year-Old MPS Student Diagnosed With MRSA
A Milwaukee mother wants to know why she was not told sooner about a
dangerous and contagious skin infection in her daughter's school.
Dayshana, 9, was hospitalized for MRSA over the weekend. She attends Keefe
Avenue School.
Milwaukee Public Schools officials confirm that another child was also
diagnosed with MRSA there about a month ago.
Dayshana's mother said she would have realized that her daughter had MRSA and
taken her to the doctor sooner -- if she had known there was another case at the
school.
"I feel like they tell the parents everything else going on. (I) feel they
should have easily typed up the letter and stated that the school had been
exposed to staph infection," Davina Gillison said.
MPS said it is looking into the MRSA cases and the parental notification
policies.
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Posted: November 20 2007 at 5:45pm |
Student at Staten Island school diagnosed with superbug
By ERIN EINHORN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, November 20th 2007, 4:00 AM
An eighth-grader at the Petrides School on Staten Island has been diagnosed
with the same superbug that led to the death of a Brooklyn boy last month,
school sources said.
The girl, who has been at home recovering since early this month, is being
treated for the MRSA bacteria and is expected to make a full recovery, the
sources said. Parents were notified last week and were invited to an information
session set for Tuesday morning.
"MRSA is a common staph infection that is resistant to certain antibiotics
but is highly treatable and very rarely dangerous," Principal Joanne Buckheit
wrote to parents. The Petrides School is a highly regarded K-12 program that
uses a lottery to choose students from across Staten Island
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 4:43am |
(Chicago) JJC steps up cleaning after student gets MRSA
November 21, 2007
By Ken O'Brien STAFF WRITER
JOLIET -- A student
at Joliet Junior College has been diagnosed with MRSA.
The student came into contact the bacteria, methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus, in a hospital, JJC President Gena Proulx said in an
e-mail sent to students Monday night. The student is under the care of a doctor
and there is no threat to the college, she said.
JJC has a main campus in Joliet, one each in Morris and Romeoville and two
other sites in Joliet.
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 5:52pm |
Possible MRSA Case: Local Student Being
Treated (Wisconsin)
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investigates a potential case of MRSA at a local school.
The focus is on
the Augusta Elementary School.
MRSA is a staph infection that's resistant
to many types of antibiotics. It's been around for years, but has been receiving
more attention lately after outbreaks at some schools in the U.S.
On
Monday, a parent called the Augusta School District and said that her child
might have MRSA. A letter was later sent out to parents. In it, it says, "That
person is being treated and is not in school. School personnel have taken steps
to disinfect anything that could be potentially contaminated."
News 18
talked to Augusta's superintendent on Tuesday night. Stephen La Fave says the
case has not been confirmed, but is being investigated by the Eau Claire
City-County Health Department. He also says the school district stepped up its
efforts to protect students and staff even before this happened.
There's
no more information being released about the student who is being treated for a
possible case of MRSA.
If you have any questions about MRSA, there's a
lot of information posted on this website. Just click on "Links" and then, "MRSA
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Posted: November 21 2007 at 5:56pm |
MRSA Case Confirmed At Harwich High School
(Cape Cod MASS) by Alan Pollock
HARWICH — School officials sent a letter home
with students this week, alerting parents to a confirmed case of MRSA
(methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) at Harwich High School. The
student is recovering well, and officials say there was no risk that the
infection was transmitted to other students.
On Sunday, one day after the infection was
confirmed, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Carolyn Cragin sent nearly 1,500 email
and recorded phone messages to parents, using the district’s computerized
Connect-Ed system. As a precaution, school custodians disinfected desks,
lockers and other surfaces throughout the building Sunday.
On Friday, school officials were first alerted to
the possibility that a student had a MRSA infection, but the information wasn’t
confirmed until Saturday. The parents of the infected student have been in
close communication with Cragin, and on Monday, the mother called to give Cragin
an update on her daughter’s condition.
“She expressed to me that this was the kind of
information that she would want to know, if she were in the position of other
parents,” Cragin said.
MRSA cases have been confirmed in several school
districts around the state, including an elementary school in Falmouth and a day
care center in Mashpee. Last month, an elementary school student in Brooklyn
died from a MRSA infection, and other deaths were reported in several other
states. MRSA infections are also known to occur in hospitals and other
healthcare settings. Public health officials say the best way people can avoid
MRSA and other related infections is to practice regular hand-washing, and to
keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a bandage until they have
healed.
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Once again, Baby Girl, I would ask that somehow an evaluation be made as to what percent of people (30%) have this and what is the true current CFR. This is very important as far as the fact suddenly they are testing for this and reporting it and we have known about and had this for years.
Also, secondly there needs to be a follow up on the spore binding form with amoeba which can carry this airborne. This is apparently being transmitted and the fact that people are dying from it is also not new.
Almost a decade ago, when we were concerned about the reverse suction and isolation protocols in many hospitals the irony was that the air was still mixing with the main flow of air and hospitals were becoming breeding grounds for MRSA infection.
My question for you is honestly, are we worse off now than all the reports I have posted from March 2006, when this bug mutated and became a serious problem.
Are we still at the stage where washing your hands and such is preventative if it is in the air? Also if it is now in the spore form, spore are incredibly resistant.
THE SECOND as very important question is why is this happening in the U.S.? Why are we not seeing a global Pandemic? Was this something that just happened - or as per threat - are we actually seeing something else.
My family and many friends continue to be ill. There are several forms of flu and illness sweeping through communities and flattening people. One specific woman wrote me of this and said it resulted in intestinal illness as well. Another woman I spoke to from Florida last night had infiltrate in 90% of her lung,they had to do major thoracic surgery and she nearly died several weeks ago.
MRSA has not been a reported condition in many health care facilities to state and federal health authorities. We do not have an accurate count currently of cases, and I continue to try and find out - is it worse - or have we had this and it was just not being reported.
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Hi Med, Im concerned about the spread of disease through the school community. I think it has the potential to be a very serious problem to the point of closing schools. Im just observing the "jump" from the hospital and into academic settings. After several months Id like to see the percentage of cases acquired in these settings and my guess is that you will see a trend of the number of these type of cases rapidly escalating. This is a different and more serious form of the disease than found in the hospital.
I hope you all feel better soon. Happy Thanksgiving to you ~~
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BabyGirl wrote:
Hi Med, Im concerned about the spread of disease through the school community. I think it has the potential to be a very serious problem to the point of closing schools. Im just observing the "jump" from the hospital and into academic settings. After several months Id like to see the percentage of cases acquired in these settings and my guess is that you will see a trend of the number of these type of cases rapidly escalating. This is a different and more serious form of the disease than found in the hospital.
I hope you all feel better soon. Happy Thanksgiving to you ~~
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Thanks Baby Girl. Yes, I think you are on to something here. It is a hole in the infrastructure in terms of not being totally transparent in reporting the spread of disease, the empty seats in the classrooms when children stay home sick, cannot be ignored. You know that the form that binds as a spore and is airborne is a bioweapon and from wherever, it is a great concern whether this form, however it came to exist, is what is infecting schools and causing them to be shut down. So, however clandestine the hospital records may be, and whether doctors report MSRA or not, it is money that moves the school districts when little Johnny is not there, and they loose X dollars, that gives us some idea when disease ripples through the general population. And of course, the fact it has left the gyms, and prisons, and hospitals, and has made the leap. Sincerely, I respect the work you have done researching and posting and I have always told people who have more time than I do to spend posting and such, this is a niche in the world that is extremely important. Not the reporter on main media, but the data miner, crawling through the obscure or non-obscure stories and piecing it together, independent of spin and economic motivation. One of the best ways, most positive is to state these problems, these disease issues, and the coming Pandemic as challenges to us as a nation, and as a people. There are armies who have laid down their weapons and taken a break, there are phenomenal things that have happened between nations, when for the sake of survival, all the rhetoric and politics had to be put on hold, so we could unite as a world community to face an ominous threat to us all. It is disturbing that much of what is on the net ended march 2006 or at the first of this year. Many countries stopped counting or simply backed off making the spreading epidemics a major issue, and became wrapped up in foreign policy, economics, and politics as the elections approach in 2008 and a great change for America and the world as the torch is passed to another lead and the grave responsibility of imperative need for change and mending of that which is broken and the laying of a new direction while the old still so persistently strives to survive. . There is a feeling that things (99%) will just go on as they have been. They cannot. The viruses are changing and in one study with doctors I spoke to bacteria were releasing substances that were communicating with other bacteria, much like ants or bees with scent trails and other strange forms of group intelligence. This is an overs implication and some will say a mixed metaphor - but basically germs don't think - but there is some type of method to their survival imperative. This sounds very sci-fi- but I have been researching "the pack theory" and I won't get into it this morning or here, but we are up against smarter germs. And they are smart in a way that is not AI, but rather some type of primal thinking way beyond our neural obsessive models, and they are going to give us grief. Our children, will carry the diseases more effectively and be the greatest challenge in containing its spread. For some, it is their children, for childless couples or single people, they may not be so fond or fuzzy concerning the spread of a lethal virus by children vectors. It is clear that children are a top priority in government thinking as far as vaccination and immunization. With whatever vaccines or drugs we have, we must contain the spread within the young. Because of their hyper immune systems they are the prime target for the "immune system (cyto) storm) which kills people with Avian. It is no coincidence so many 12 year olds die on respirators in Indonesia. There is an MRSA III and that is one, the spore former, the amoeboid jumper that you should be concerned about. Medclinician
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Posted: November 23 2007 at 9:53am |
MRSA case reported in Brentwood(PA)
by John Santa Staff
Writer November 22, 2007
Less than one week after a case of methicillin resistant staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA) surfaced at Thomas Jefferson High School, another was reported at
Brentwood Middle School.
Brentwood Superintendent Ronald Dufalla notified parents of the MRSA case in
a letter sent home, which was dated Nov. 15. The letter indicated one MRSA case
had been diagnosed and reported within the middle school population.
No other information has been released regarding the case.
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Community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA): an emerging pathogen in infective endocarditis.B Cherie Millar, Bernard D Prendergast, and John E Moore J. Antimicrob. Chemother., October 25, 2007; . Abstract Northern
Ireland Public Health Laboratory, Department of Bacteriology, Belfast
City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7AD, Northern Ireland, UK. Over
the last decade, a novel methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) has emerged, primarily associated with healthy individuals
within the community. This organism is distinct from
healthcare-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA) in terms of epidemiology,
microbiology and clinical manifestation and as such has been defined as
community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA). Given that S. aureus is a major
aetiological agent of infective endocarditis (IE), particularly
associated with the iv drug user population, reports of IE attributed
to CA-MRSA are now emerging in the literature. The aims of this article
are to (i) define and contrast CA-MRSA with HA-MRSA; (ii) review the
published cases of CA-MRSA IE to date; and (iii) evaluate the current
international recommendations for antibiotic prophylaxis and treatment
regimens for IE in relation to CA-MRSA. http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;17962214
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Posted: November 24 2007 at 5:03am |
Two inmates, officer infected with MRSA (Syracuse)
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Staff writer
There are three cases of MRSA infection at Cayuga Correctional Facility in
Moravia, the state Department of Correctional Services confirmed Friday.
Erik Kriss, speaking for the department, said two inmates and one corrections
officer are suffering from the staph infection caused by methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus, the so-called MRSA bacteria.
The two inmates are being treated at the facility, and their disease is not
considered life-threatening. Kriss could not release information on treatment of
the officer because of state privacy laws.
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