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Video: Forget YMCA – Wythenshawe Hospital gets the MRSA dance bug on YouTube Staff at a Manchester hospital have recreated the disco classic YMCA – in a bid to tackle superbug MRSA. Around 70 workers and patients teamed up to … Continue reading →

MRSA – the public health disaster that kills more Americans every year than AIDS CHICAGO, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — MRSA Survivors Network urgently pleads with the Society of Healthcare Epidemiologists of America (SHEA) along with the Centers for Disease … Continue reading →

CHICAGO, March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The ongoing MRSA epidemic continues to be a major global threat and MRSA was first discovered fifty years ago this year by the late professor Patricia Jevons of the U.K. in 1961. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus … Continue reading →

CHICAGO, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The World MRSA Day kickoff global event at Loyola University Chicago will broadcast live via webstream on October 1, 2010 starting at 10:00AM (CDT) and can be viewed on 3M’s website and at www.worldmrsaday.org. “We … Continue reading →

CHICAGO, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — MRSA Survivors Network announces that the second annual World MRSA Day kickoff event at Loyola University Chicago on October 1, 2010 will be broadcasting live by webstream on 3M’s website and at www.worldmrsaday.org starting at 10:00am (CST). Jeanine Thomas, founder of World MRSA … Continue reading →

CHICAGO, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — MRSA Survivors Network, the Chicago-based nonprofit organization, launches their second annual World MRSA Day kick-off event at Loyola University Chicago on October 1, 2010. The 2010 global theme for World MRSA Day is: ‘The MRSA … Continue reading →

Testing, treatment regimen working, so why aren’t more using it? By Marshall Allen (contact) Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 | 2 a.m. The Veterans Affairs Department is determined to eliminate the spread of MRSA within its facilities, and has virtually eliminated … Continue reading →

By Marshall Allen (contact), Alex Richards Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010 | 2 a.m. Las Vegas hospital officials say they are doing enough to protect patients from becoming infected with deadly bacteria. But hospitals are failing. Just ask Ruth Lepper, whose … Continue reading →

Get Active, Get Involved, Make A Difference ! CHICAGO, June 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — MRSA Survivors Network with MRSA survivors, family members and other victims of healthcare-acquired infections unite across the globe and on World MRSA Day, October 2, 2010 in … Continue reading →

CHICAGO, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — More Americans die annually from invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections than from HIV/AIDS, H1N1 influenza and Parkinson’s disease, yet the United States and many other countries’ health officials continue to ignore the global crisis. … Continue reading →