Today I found two articles in the news that go from one extreme to the other about the spread of MRSA. In Ireland it was announced that candidates and canvassers were being told to keep washing their hands thoroughly to minimize the spread of CA MRSA along their campaign trail. Wouldn’t you just love to see precautions like that getting news coverage in our country! Especially in light the fact that more than half of our athletic trainers say they have treated an athlete for MRSA! But on the flip side, U.K. staff workers at Good Hope Hospital in Suton Coldfield are being ordered to just turn the sheets over and the pillow cases inside out between patients to save on laundry bills!! Since MRSA is obviously a problem all over the world why can’t we have protocol in place globally to fight this monster? OK, that’s asking a bit much but how about just in our own country? We need widespread recognition of MRSA and then to copy everything that has ever been done to successfully eradicate this Super Bug. Ireland’s response to this threat isn’t extreme at all and a very simple but effective way to contain MRSA. And remember, thorough hand washing is 15 seconds with soap and warm water! I hate seeing elegant women in the ladies room dampen their fingers and wipe them dry and go! I’m not even sure if that is better than nothing!!!