November 12th, 2007

[past headlines]

Factor Key To Severity Of Community-associated Methicillin ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Up until a year ago, most scientists studying S. aureus believed they had narrowed their search for the cause of severe CA-MRSA infections, focusing on the ...

Revealed: The superbug's superbug
AFP -
This strain, called community-associated MRSA, or CA-MRSA, is more vicious than the hospital-borne strain of MRSA, the trigger for a global scare ...

MRSA and Pets
MaineToday.com - Portland, ME, USA
What I replied to the inquirer is the following: We as pet owners need to be concerned with animals contracting MRSA. It is a very worrying situation. ...

Doctors at 'super bug' conference share latest on MRSA
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago, IL, USA
The antibiotic-resistant infection known as MRSA is here now, and it's already an epidemic. Over a dozen schools in the Chicago suburbs have reported ...

Local woman battled MRSA – and beat it
Midland Daily News - Midland, MI, USA
By Angela E. Lackey For Yolanda Traugott, MRSA is more than just an acronym representing the latest hot news story. It's a disease that almost took her life ...

More MRSA in South Georgia schools
WALB-TV - Albany, GA, USA
In a letter dated November 9th, Coffee Middle School Director Phil Dockery informed parents that one student within the system was diagnosed with MRSA. ...

Staph Germ Undermines Body's Defenses
The Associated Press -
An estimated 90000 people in the United States fall ill each year from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. It is not clear how many die ...

Area schools get quick lesson on MRSA
Midland Daily News - Midland, MI, USA
By Angela E. Lackey Mid-Michigan school districts had to learn quickly about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, as several suspected or ...