One More Reason to Wash Your Hands in the Hospital…

mà ~ my hand, originally uploaded by _ n a t u r a l _. Although the year 2000 didn’t bring the expected widespread Y2K havoc, it did bring the onset of increased numbers of MRSA infections.  According to the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology (JDD) online, a new study of U.S. data from 2000 through 2004 showed that the number of people hospitalized for community-acquired MRSA infections increased by 28.9 percent.  (The study was conducted by Dr. Marcus Zervos, an infectious disease physician currently practicing in Detroit,... read more