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The aggressive antibiotic-resistant staph infection responsible for thousands of recent illnesses undermines the body's defenses by causing germ-fighting cells to explode, researchers reported Sunday. Experts say the findings may help lead to better treatments.
Loyola University Medical Center on Monday announced plans to start testing all incoming patients for a drug-resistant staph germ and isolating those who carry the dangerous bacteria.
Public schools in Mount Vernon are being disinfected after a worker and a student showed signs of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, authorities said.
Testing all new hospital patients for a dangerous staph "superbug" could help wipe out a germ that likely kills more Americans than AIDS, consumer advocates say and early evidence suggests.
Good hygiene is the best way to avoid infection from a potentially dangerous drug-resistant germ called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. A new government report suggests that more 90,000 Americans annually get an invasive form of the disease, which can be deadly.
A high school student who was hospitalized for more than a week with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection has died. After a student protest, officials shut down 21 schools for cleaning to keep the illness from spreading.
Schools across the country are reporting outbreaks of staph infections, particularly among athletes, and the germs include an antibiotic-resistant strain that is sometimes associated with serious skin problems and blood disorders.
Brian Russell had no idea what hit him. A guy who routinely tackles 250-pound running backs head-on and occasionally gets pulverized by rampaging 350-pound NFL linemen for a living nearly saw his season end because of a microscopic germ. The Cleveland Browns safety was flattened by a staph infection that hospitalized him during the preseason.
A once-rare drug-resistant germ now appears to cause more than half of all skin infections treated in U.S. emergency rooms, say researchers who documented the superbug's startling spread in the general population.
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.
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.
Generic, World War II-era antibiotics may become the newest weapon of choice in the fight against deadly, drug-resistant staph germs.
You might want to wash your hands after reading this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Instead of going to her first birthday party, little Anna DeBord spent the weekend in the hospital with a superbug.
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 …
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.
A new superbug - which causes infections from large, boil-like lesions to hemorrhagic pneumonia and, in rare cases, "flesh-eating" disease - is heading east.
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