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MRSA Now Rampant and Infections Rising - World MRSA Awareness Month - October

World MRSA Awareness Month

MRSA Survivors Network

MORRIS, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES, October 5, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- With the onset of COVID-19, many healthcare facilities have suspended screening patients and reporting infection rates for MRSA. Recent studies have proven that MRSA infections have increased due to lack of screening patients in healthcare facilities. This is proof that active detection and isolation (ADI) is crucial to reducing MRSA infection and deaths.

‘The MRSA Epidemic -A Call to Action’ is again this year’s global theme for the 14th Annual World MRSA Day -World MRSA Awareness Month annual campaigns. MRSA Survivors Network continues to raise the alarm concerning the ongoing global methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) epidemic in healthcare facilities and in the community.

Federal and state health departments must again focus on the ongoing MRSA epidemic and finally commit to eradicating this virulent bacterium. Patients have survived COVID only to have succumbed to a healthcare-acquired MRSA infection.

Patricia Jevons, an UK microbiologist first saw MRSA under her microscope on October 2,1961 and World MRSA Day/Month reminds the world of the genesis of MRSA. MRSA was allowed to go unchecked for decades and proliferated into the ongoing global epidemic that it is today. The true magnitude of deaths and infections from this preventable disease are unknown, but several million have lost their life to MRSA over the years.

World MRSA Awareness Month, October Webinar Event

MRSA Survivors Network will be conducting a webinar on October 6, 2022, at 7:00pm CT to raise awareness and to educate the public and the healthcare industry on MRSA prevention. Billionaire Richard Branson will be presenting Opening Remarks and Dr. John Powers, an Infectious Disease Specialist from George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. is Keynote Speaker. MRSA survivors will be sharing their personal stories along with other experts.
Zoom Webinar Link – Access code: 467918
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86784085674?pwd=V1g5VDErcFllUG1aQlpjbnJkL1hGZz09

Sponsor: Hibiclens

An aggressive, comprehensive bundled approach to eradicating MRSA must be reinstated: screening all high- risk patients, isolation, strict hand hygiene, use of gloves and gowns, decontaminating the environment, decolonizing patients, prudent use of antibiotics and most important a corporate culture change with a commitment to patient safety.

Too many lives have been cut short, patients permanently disabled, bankrupt with a loss of income. Entire families are suffering. MRSA victims suffer in silence and still feel stigmatized. Everyone is at risk for a MRSA infection.

International MRSA Testing Week April 1-7 annual campaign.

MRSA Survivors Network was the first patient/consumer advocacy organization in the U.S. (founded in 2003) to raise the alarm concerning MRSA and healthcare-acquired infections. Founder, Jeanine Thomas was infected with MRSA in 2000 in a Chicago hospital during ankle surgery and became critically ill with sepsis and the C. difficile.

Contact us at 815 710-5026 or jthomas@mrsasurvivors.org for sponsorship opportunities or additional information.
www.MRSAsurvivors.org , Facebook.com/MRSASurvivorsNetwork

JEANINE R THOMAS
MRSA Survivors Network
+1 815-710-5026
jthomas@mrsasurvivors.org

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