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News: February 14, 2012
Kids Carrying MRSA Germ Prone to Serious Infection: Study
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Hospitalized children who carry a dangerous type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria but show no signs of illness are still at high risk for developing full-blown infections, a new study finds. The germ -- methi...
New MRSA Strain Found in Cows' Milk in U.K., Denmark
FRIDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- A new strain of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been detected in cows' milk in the United Kingdom and Denmark. Dr. Mark A. Holmes, of the department of vet...
Scientists Find MRSA Germ in Supermarket Meats
WEDNESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- MRSA, a bacteria resistant to common antibiotics, has been discovered in supermarket meats, and the germ is apparently being introduced by human food handlers, a new study reports. Although thorough cooking wi...
Bedbugs May Transmit Drug-Resistant Bacteria
WEDNESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- Bedbugs carrying two types of drug-resistant bacteria have been found by Canadian researchers, an alarming discovery in light of the resurgence of bedbugs in North America and Western Europe over the past 10 y...
Better Cleaning in ICUs Lowers MRSA Infection Rates
TUESDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) -- Enhanced cleaning of hospital intensive care units reduces the risk of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection for patients placed in a room previously occupied by someone with MRSA, a new...
MRSA Infections May Vary by Season
TUESDAY, March 29 (HealthDay News) -- Dangerous methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infections occur more often in the summer and fall, and this seasonal increase is more common in children than adults, a new study reports. The f...
Nose May Be Best Place to Screen for MRSA Infection
FRIDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- A new study finds that people with high levels of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria in the nose are more likely to have other areas of the body colonized by MRSA, which can cause potenti...
Guidelines Issued for Drug-Resistant Staph Infections
THURSDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- An infectious disease association has released the first national guidelines for the treatment of potentially deadly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)infections. Initially found in health- care...
Many Parents in the Dark About Drug-Resistant Infections: Study
FRIDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Lack of knowledge and fear are common among parents of children with the drug-resistant staph bacteria called MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), says a new study. Health care staff need to do a ...
MRSA Strain With Outbreak Potential Among Reports at Disease Conference
FRIDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- An increasingly stubborn strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a common bacterial infection acquired in hospitals, has been identified in Ohio, according to research presented at the an...
New Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Reaches U.S. Shores
TUESDAY Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new antibiotic-resistant germ that apparently has it origins in India has sickened a handful of people in North America, with three of the cases reported in the United States, health officials said Tuesday. B...
Travel for Surgery May Help Spread New Superbug
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) -- A gene that makes bacteria resistant to almost all antibiotics has appeared in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, researchers have found. The so-called NDM-1 gene has also been identified in the United Kingdom i...
Genetics Used to Track Transmission of MRSA Bacteria
THURSDAY, Jan. 21 (HealthDay News) -- New technology has made it possible, for the first time, to track the potentially deadly bacteria MRSA around the world or from one person to another, a new study reports. The ability to track MRSA (methicilli...
No Sign of Superbugs in Isolated Polar Bears
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Scant evidence of antibiotic-resistant superbugs has been found in the droppings of Arctic polar bears that are isolated from humans, potentially suggesting that humans are responsible for the spread of such ...
Post-Surgery Infection Can Add $60,000 to Hospital Bill
FRIDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Surgical patients whose incisions become infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria are at greatly increased risk for hospital readmission and death, claims a new study that found that treating this type of inf...
MRSA Creeping Into Hospitals From the Outside
TUESDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Strains of antibiotic-resistant infections normally found in the community are increasingly showing up among hospital outpatients, raising the risk that inpatients could become infected, new research says. From...
Virulent Strain of MRSA Resists Treatment
SUNDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- New research holds bad news for health officials worried about a potentially lethal infection called MRSA that haunts hospitals: A strain that infects the bloodstream is five times more deadly than other strains....
Antibiotic Resistance Still a Major Public Health Threat
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria continues to present a major public health problem, said scientists gathering at one of the world's largest infectious diseases meetings Friday. Chief among the con...
MRSA May Succumb to Honey
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Manuka honey, known for its anti-microbial properties, might kill MRSA bacteria. A new study from the University of Wales Institute-Cardiff suggests that the honey, made solely from flowers found on the New Z...
Staph Infection May Follow People Home From Hospital
MONDAY, Aug. 10 (HealthDay News) -- A French study estimates that more than 12 percent of people discharged from a hospital into home health care are infected with MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and about 20 percent of them ...
A Pet's Bite Can Pass on MRSA
MONDAY, June 22 (HealthDay News) -- The spread of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections between pets and humans is increasing, with the most common being infections of the skin, soft-tissue and surgical infections, say rese...
Third of EMS Stethoscopes Carry MRSA Bacterium
FRIDAY, March 27 (HealthDay News) -- One in three stethoscopes used by U.S. emergency medical service providers is contaminated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University o...
3 Steps Might Help Stop MRSA's Spread
FRIDAY, March 20 (HealthDay News) -- A high-tech way of monitoring hand washing, a better means of disinfecting rooms and improved tracking of patients as they transfer from one hospital to another could all help prevent the spread of the MRSA "su...
Are Hospital Mobile Phones Dialing Up Superbugs?
FRIDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) -- A new culprit has emerged in the spread of the tough-to-kill "superbug" bacteria and other infections in hospitals -- mobile phone headsets. Turkish researchers testing the phones of doctors and nurses working i...
Engineered Viruses Could Battle Superbugs
WEDNESDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) -- American researchers say they've engineered a virus that disables the defense systems of bacteria to enhance the effectiveness of antibiotics. The scientists said this approach could help prevent bacteria fro...
MRSA Cases Dropping in Hospital ICUs
TUESDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Blood infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have dropped significantly in hospital intensive care units, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention re...
MRSA Infections Spreading to Kids in Community
MONDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Antibiotic-resistant infections around the head and neck are on the rise among American children, a new report indicates. The finding suggests that tougher strains of the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus -- referr...
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