Results tagged “staphinfection”

The state has finally caught on to the truth, thanks to dogged and brave investigation from the Seattle Times: MRSA, a potentially fatal, antibiotic-resistant strain of staph scourging the nation's hospital patients and other sufferers at exponentially increasing rates, is a big deal and pretending it's either inevitable or non-existent won't make it go away. We're not sure why it took so damn long for this to become a rule, but the Times announces that it is at last now mandatory for Washington hospitals to report MRSA incidences.