WA Student Dies From MRSA

Chris Feden, a 20-year-old student from Tenino, Washington, has died from complications of pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus commonly referred to as MRSA. Read more

MRSA Reporting System Begins

California’s state public health director, Dr. Mark Horton, announced Thursday that hospitals in the state must now report to county health officials certain incidences of infection from the methicilln-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium when the staph infection requires confinement to an intensive-care unit or causes a death. Read more