Source: The Roanoke Times
Six days ago, it was reported that some students at a large high school in Roanoke, Virginia, were experiencing strange symptoms. The Roanoke school superintendent and the high school have not identified the symptoms, angering some parents, worrying more.
Source: Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON - Drug-resistant staph infections that have made headlines in recent weeks come from what the nation's top doctor calls "the cockroach of bacteria" — a bad germ that can lurk in lots of places, but not one that should trigger panic.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Generic, World War II-era antibiotics may become the newest weapon of choice in the fight against deadly, drug-resistant staph germs.
Source: MiamiHerald.com
You might want to wash your hands after reading this.
Source: The New York Times
For years health authorities have warned of the growing threat posed by drug-resistant bacteria, but most of us have been half-listening. Not anymore.
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The CDC says that every year, more than 90,000 people contract MRSA, a drug-resistant staph infection. Most people contract MRSA in a healthcare setting.
There has been a lot of publicity over MSRA (an antibiotic-resistant strain of a Staphylococcus bacterium). Commonly known as a Staph infection, this new strain has caused a health scare because of the fact that it caused more deaths this year than the AIDS virus.
Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati Public Schools has joined other area school districts such as Middletown and Mason reporting recent cases of staph infection. School district spokeswoman Janet Walsh said this morning five or six cases of students infected with the MRSA "superbug" were confirmed e …
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA, kills more people in the United States every year than AIDS.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Drug-resistant staph infects more than 90,000 Americans a year and contributes to the deaths of more than 18,000, concludes a study published yesterday in JAMA.
Source: CNN
Over the past week, I have received more questions about MRSA than just about any other topic. MRSA has also been called the "superbug" or a flesh eating bacteria. At its most basic level, MRSA is a type of staph bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus.
Source: The Seattle Times
Instead of going to her first birthday party, little Anna DeBord spent the weekend in the hospital with a superbug.
Source: Chicago Tribune
As many as 1.2 million hospital patients are infected with dangerous, drug-resistant staph infections each year, almost 10 times more than previous estimates, based on findings from a major new study. And 48,000 to 119,000 hospital patients a year may be dying from methicillin-r …
Source: clarionledger.com
Some doctors and researches believe a type of staph infection is causing skin lesions and sores that have shown up on Katrina-relief volunteers in recent months.
Source: hfxnews.ca
A new superbug - which causes infections from large, boil-like lesions to hemorrhagic pneumonia and, in rare cases, "flesh-eating" disease - is heading east.
Source: Associated Content
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