Over the past several months, we have received dozens of questions about multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). In particular, readers have asked about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

AVA, IL (KFVS) - Savannah Smith has been to hell and back. A decade-long heroin addiction brought her to the brink of death more than a dozen times. But it was a bacterium called Methicillin-resistant ...

During the COVID pandemic, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in acute care hospitals rose steeply, despite a decrease of infections before the pandemic, the Society for ...

As if all the angst about drug-resistant staph bacteria wasn’t worrisome enough, now it turns out you might get the deadly germ from your cat. Suspicions about that calico on the couch are being ...

MRSA, first identified in 1960, became a major cause of healthcare-associated infection with the emergence of epidemic strains EMRSA 15 and 16 in the 1990s. MRSA bacteraemia surveillance in England ...

Certain beverages appear to be linked to lower risk of carrying the superbug. July 15, 2011— -- People who drink hot tea or coffee are less likely to carry the superbug known as ...

Severe MRSA infections can be fatal. MRSA mortality rates tend to be highest in older people. Certain underlying health conditions can also increase the risk of death. Staphylococcus aureus is a ...

Nearly 120,000 people contracted bloodstream staph infections in the United States in 2017, most of them in health care facilities – and nearly 20,000 died. Progress against the most dangerous ...

It wasn't that long ago that if your child got a staph infection, it was knocked out with a couple of doses of penicillin. Now, penicillin may not work because there's a form of staph called "MRSA" ...