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'Superbugs,' staph hit the headlines with release of CDC report.
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Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 29-OCT-07 |
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Full Article Title: 'Superbugs,' staph hit the headlines with release of CDC report.(Healthcare Mississippi) |
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Article Excerpt
Concern has been growing for years about increasing rates of a type of staph infection--methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA--that can cause serious illness and death. But even experts were surprised by the recent announcement that rates of MRSA are nearly double what was previously believed.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), MRSA caused serious illness in 95,000 people in the U.S. in 2005, and killed approximately 19,000. That is more than the 17,000 Americans killed that year by complications from AIDS.
An 11-year-old girl who attended Vancleave Middle School on the Coast may be one of the latest victims of MRSA. The girl died at a Mobile hospital after antibiotic treatment failed.
Margaret Bush, acting superintendent of education for the Jackson County School District, said the district has not officially been notified that the student of a staph infection. Staph infections are not a disease that is required to be reported to the health department.
"We don't know if the cause of death for this child is staph," Bush said. "We haven't been given medical reports. We have not had an outbreak...
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