Mrsa Superbug

New MRSA Superbug Strain Found In Cows' Milk

Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Mrsa Superbug, New Mrsa Strain, New Research, Humans Mrsa, Cows Milk Mrsa, Mrsa Cows, New Superbug Strain, Cows Mrsa, Mrsa Strain Humans, Mrsa Strain Cows Miilk, Healthy Living News

(Reuters) - British scientists have found a new strain of the "superbug" MRSA in milk from cows and in swab samples from humans and say it cannot ...

Read Whole Story

Federal Government Forms A Work Group On MRSA In Meat

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mrsa, MRSA Beef, MRSA Pork, Mrsa Superbug, Health, MRSA Meat, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

Last week, I wrote a column about the disturbingly high rate of MRSA (a drug-resistant staff bacteria) found in meat. Today, I am pleased to write that the USDA shares my concerns.

Read Post

MRSA In Meat: Why No Recall?

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mrsa, Pork MRSA, Mrsa Superbug, MRSA Infection, Health, MRSA Meat, MRSA Pork, Meat MRSA, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

MRSA is showing up in random samples of raw pork sold in supermarkets, and to a lesser extent in beef and chicken. Yet these potentially deadly cuts have never been yanked off the shelves.

Read Post

PHOTOS: Gross! Hepatitis, Staph And Other Infections You Can Catch From Swimming In The Ocean

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mrsa, Polluted Beaches, Mrsa Superbug, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Gastroenteritis, Swimmer's Itch, Legionnaire's Disease, Gulf Oil Spill, Pollution, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Hepatitis, Exxon Valdez, Swimming, United States Beaches, Oil Spill, Beach Diseases, Enteric Bacteria, Beaches, Disease, Health, Oil, Slidepollajax, Environment, Pink Eye, Our Oceans, Oceans, Swimmer's Ear, Gulf Coast, Green News

Whether we like it or not, our nation's beaches are not as clean as we would prefer them to be. Ocean water contaminated with sewage, storm run-off an...

Read Whole Story

Cellphones May Spread Superbugs In Hospitals, Says Study

AFP | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mrsa Superbug, Cellphones Spread Superbugs, Cellphone Superbugs, Cellphones in Hospitals, Healthy Living News

PARIS (AFP) - Cell phones belonging to hospital staff were found to be tainted with bacteria -- including the drug-resistant MRSA superbug -- and may ...

Read Whole Story

MRSA "Superbug" Is Spreading

Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Texas Superbug, Mrsa Symptoms, Mrsa Superbug, Superbug, Superbug Pandemic, Vance Mcgaugh, Staph, Staph Infections, Mrsa Pneumonia, Mrsa, Superbug Symptoms, Staph Virus, California Mrsa, Healthy Living News

Vance McGaugh was a normal healthy teenager. As his parents stood by his side at Cook Children's Medical Center, they kept expecting him to pull throu...

Read Whole Story