Is there anything you can do to prevent MRSA in any of its variants?
Right now, MRSA, in the general population, is killing about 19, 000 people a year.
First of all, if MRSA is caught early, it's completely curable with one of the antibiotics.
The headline we saw back in October was MRSA kills more than people - than AIDS does.
And it - we know that MRSA spread normally just through skin-to-skin contact, very casual skin-to-skin contact.
Some confusion has arisen from the Tories' juxtaposition of MRSA infection rates with hospital death rates.
But MRSA was cited as the underlying cause of death in only one-third - 321.
We're making real progress against MRSA but the war against another infection, C-difficile, must be intensified.
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You're at increased risk of MRSA if you share razors, soap, towels, or other personal items.
The figures show that MRSA-related deaths in the province have doubled in the last five years.
Two months ago MRSA rates in England hit their lowest level since records began.
Deaths from MRSA fell by a quarter, from 485 in 2010 to 364 in 2011.
The hospital trust has one of the worst rates of MRSA infection in England.
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There's been a lot of talk about MRSA recently, and even more questions.
In Wales from 2011-2012, cases of C.difficle infections fell by 32% and MRSA cases by around 9%.
NPR's health editor Joe Neel joins us to talk about MRSA in general and about this new variant in particular.
The official name is MRSA, M-R-S-A - a highly drug-resistant staph infection that's challenged researchers for most of this decade.
The new study looked at just a subset of about 448 hospital patients with antibiotic resistant MRSA strains.
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But we know a lot more about how to control MRSA. We know a lot more about how to treat it.
Medical technology firm BD hopes a fancy molecular test can help ferret out MRSA, a common drug-defying staph bug.
One way to treat hospital patients suspected of having MRSA, he suggests, would be to start them with Zyvox.
According to the Department of Health, there were just under 500 cases of MRSA recorded between 2001 and 2003.
Although PVL MRSA is resistant to common antibiotics, other antibiotics are available to treat it, particularly when diagnosed early.
Schools, prisons and other crowded environments are particularly known for transmitting MRSA, said.
Last year we used DNA sequencing to help bring an outbreak of MRSA at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge to a halt.
I'm actually an emergency medicine resident at a busy urban ER and we've been dealing with MRSA for quite a few years.
And it's eerie how you keep referring to this MDR MRSA as a gay community disease or man who are bisexual disease.
The party's health spokeswoman Alison McInnes called for the bug to be given the same attention as MRSA and C.diff.
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Jim Hedrick, a materials scientist with IBM Research, never really set out to tackle the MRSA (methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus) problem.
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