MetaFilter posts tagged with MRSA

Sustainability

homunculus — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:46:13 -0800

Our Decrepit Food Factories. Michael Pollan on what sustainability is really about. [Via Gristmill.]

A fly in the ointment

orthogonality — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:31:01 -0800

MRSA... the global medical communities dirty little secret.

PROD_TPSL — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:45:34 -0800

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. In 2005, invasive MRSA infections were estimated to have killed 18,650 in the United States alone. This may be a conservative estimate. It is going global. It is changing politics. It may become pandemic. On a personal note, MRSA knocked my brother "offline" on June 5 2006 at 01:06 EST, and may have played a part in the "kill -9" of my and the Mrs. TPSL's "child process". We are both carriers. No... I'm not bitter.

Resistant-bacteria reports cause alarm

Postroad — Sun, 02 Mar 2003 11:42:19 -0800

Resistant-bacteria reports cause alarm Another good reason to avoid Fenway Park and the Redsox