I recently shared information about CA MRSA with a friend I met Online who lives here, in Omaha, Nebraska. She told me that she was concerned that the kindergarteners that she works with aren’t encouraged to even wash their hands after using the restroom. She suggested working on handwashing and was shot down on the idea because it would “add another five to ten minutes” to the process of taking the class to the restroom. I do believe there are things best taught at home but believe this issue should be addressed in the home as well as in school. Especially in school! I wonder what that teacher would say about really proper handwashing i.e. singing Twinkle Twinklw while they wash their little hands??
We certainly don’t live in a MRSA free area. Besides the fact that I don’t think any such place exists any more, wee just hd four students diagnosed with a “staph” infection announced on the news this morning. And that is all it was announced as. They never once in the broadcast mentioned the word or letters MRSA and seemed to be downplaying it as much as they possibly could even though these four cases are typically on a football team together.
Awareness. I don’t know when it will come. I just saw a blog where a young man was claiming that MRSA was just the “scare of the moment”. It is time to wake up. This is not a bird flu coming here someday. It is here and all of the downplaying and fear of causing a panic are way too late. CA MRSA is an epidemic in this country and everyone has the right to know that and everyone at all ages should be being taught how to prevent and fight this Super Bug before we’re nothing more than a Robin Cook novel at its most horrific.