Olympia man suing Veterans Administration after he contracted MRSA
Vietnam vet sues Veterans Affairs after broken ankle treatment ended with amputation because of infection
The News Tribune
BY ADAM ASHTON
Staff writer
February 23, 2014
A Vietnam veteran living in Olympia is suing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs two years after a severe bacterial infection he developed while receiving care at the system’s Seattle hospital led to the amputation of his right leg.
Steve Garletts alleges VA doctors were negligent in their care over a three-week stretch in late 2011. It began when he sought treatment for an ankle fracture he suffered in an accident at his Alaska home. He took a turn for the worse when he contracted an antibiotic-resistant MRSA infection.
The former Marine is seeking unspecified compensation for his traumatic injuries, disfigurement and loss of earning capacity.
“I came in with a simple fracture and I came out without a leg,” Garletts, 65, said in an interview this month.
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Sunday, February 23, 2014
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Police: "Girl, 2, contracted MRSA from beating"
Police: Girl, 2, contracted MRSA from beating
Investigators in Granite Falls said the boyfriend of the girl's mother threw her against a bed frame and hit her with a switch. The girl contracted a drug-resistant staph infection from the cuts suffered during the beatings. Read more »
By Bryan Johnson & KOMO Staff GRANITE FALLS, Wash. -- Police have arrested a woman and her boyfriend after a 2-year-old girl was found with multiple abuse injuries, one of which led to her contracting a drug-resistant staph infection.
Robert Beers has been booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of assault of a child, and the girl's mother was booked for investigation of criminal mistreatment.
Investigators said a tip led them to the home on October 18, and officers immediately took custody of the girl and her 6-year-old brother after seeing signs of abuse.
Officer Don Lauer said a doctor who examined the girl found three broken ribs that the girl likely suffered several months ago, as well as cuts and bruises on the back of her legs.
"The doctors said that the markings on the back of the child's legs were consistent with markings from a beating with a switch," Lauer said.
Doctors said the girl contracted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from the leg injuries.
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Investigators in Granite Falls said the boyfriend of the girl's mother threw her against a bed frame and hit her with a switch. The girl contracted a drug-resistant staph infection from the cuts suffered during the beatings. Read more »
By Bryan Johnson & KOMO Staff GRANITE FALLS, Wash. -- Police have arrested a woman and her boyfriend after a 2-year-old girl was found with multiple abuse injuries, one of which led to her contracting a drug-resistant staph infection.
Robert Beers has been booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of assault of a child, and the girl's mother was booked for investigation of criminal mistreatment.
Investigators said a tip led them to the home on October 18, and officers immediately took custody of the girl and her 6-year-old brother after seeing signs of abuse.
Officer Don Lauer said a doctor who examined the girl found three broken ribs that the girl likely suffered several months ago, as well as cuts and bruises on the back of her legs.
"The doctors said that the markings on the back of the child's legs were consistent with markings from a beating with a switch," Lauer said.
Doctors said the girl contracted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from the leg injuries.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
MRSA infection linked to death of 12-year-old boy
MRSA infection linked to death of 12-year-old boy
Gary Taylor | Sentinel Staff Writer
December 16, 2008
A 12-year-old Volusia County boy initially thought to have died from chickenpox may have succumbed to a drug-resistant staph infection known as MRSA, an official said Monday.
Cody Shrout, a student at Campbell Middle School in Daytona Beach, had signs of chickenpox in his blood, but the likely cause of death was methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, said Dave Byron, a Volusia County spokesman.
Cody's death comes as about 40 students at Spruce Creek High School in nearby Port Orange are being treated after contracting chickenpox.
Health officials are aware of Cody's death but wouldn't discuss it because of privacy laws. However, they did say they are not facing a public-health threat.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
UK:Care home denies Marine hero MRSA
April 15, 2008
Care home denies Marine hero MRSA
A hospital has denied that a Royal Marine hailed a hero by Prince Harry has contracted the superbug MRSA while in its care.
After flying back from Afghanistan the Prince said he was humbled by Marine Ben McBean who lost an arm and leg after hitting a Taliban mine.
The 21-year-old commando was being treated for his injuries at Selly Oak NHS hospital, Birmingham.
It was reported on Tuesday he has colonised MRSA, which means he is carrying the bug but it is yet to infect his wounds.
He was discharged from Selly Oak last week and the hospital denied he contracted any infection while he was there.
A spokeswoman for the University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust said: "Marine McBean has not contracted a hospital-acquired infection whilst a patient at Selly Oak Hospital."
It is understood he is now recovering at the Headley Court Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre in Surrey.
An unnamed Royal Marine is reported saying Mne McBean is "really down about the infection".
The source told The Sun: "For Ben to survive everything the Taliban threw at him just to end up shafted by his own medical system is sickening."
Mne McBean, from Plymouth, Devon, is the eleventh British serviceman injured in war zones to contract MRSA in the last five years.
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Care home denies Marine hero MRSA
A hospital has denied that a Royal Marine hailed a hero by Prince Harry has contracted the superbug MRSA while in its care.
After flying back from Afghanistan the Prince said he was humbled by Marine Ben McBean who lost an arm and leg after hitting a Taliban mine.
The 21-year-old commando was being treated for his injuries at Selly Oak NHS hospital, Birmingham.
It was reported on Tuesday he has colonised MRSA, which means he is carrying the bug but it is yet to infect his wounds.
He was discharged from Selly Oak last week and the hospital denied he contracted any infection while he was there.
A spokeswoman for the University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust said: "Marine McBean has not contracted a hospital-acquired infection whilst a patient at Selly Oak Hospital."
It is understood he is now recovering at the Headley Court Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre in Surrey.
An unnamed Royal Marine is reported saying Mne McBean is "really down about the infection".
The source told The Sun: "For Ben to survive everything the Taliban threw at him just to end up shafted by his own medical system is sickening."
Mne McBean, from Plymouth, Devon, is the eleventh British serviceman injured in war zones to contract MRSA in the last five years.
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
Super Bugs and Green Tea
Tea Up
Green tea is thought to be a cancer-preventing superfood;
now researchers say it may also be a weapon against deadly superbugs like MRSA.
By Daniel Stone Newsweek Web Exclusive
Apr 2, 2008 Updated: 1:45 p.m. ET Apr 2, 2008
There are a lot of reasons to drink green tea. Study after study links the antioxidant-rich drink to a host of health benefits. Now researchers at Egypt's University of Alexandria point to a new reason to brew up some green: it boosts the effectiveness of antibiotics in fighting harmful bacteria and drug-resistant superbugs like MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus).
Egyptian researchers tested green tea in combination with antibiotics against 28 disease-causing microorganisms belonging to two different classes: green tea enhanced the bacteria-killing activity of the antibiotics in every case. The study, presented this week at a meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Edinburgh, Scotland, showed that green tea made one in five drug-resistant bacteria susceptible to one of the cephalosporin antibiotics (a class of antibiotics that some strains of bacteria have mutated to resist).
The boost in antibiotic effectiveness may become a welcome weapon in the fight against a growing number of antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals and community settings. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2 million people in the U.S. are affected each year by antibiotic-resistant infections caused by bacteria, like MRSA, which survive by mutating to avoid the effects of antibiotics.
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Green tea is thought to be a cancer-preventing superfood;
now researchers say it may also be a weapon against deadly superbugs like MRSA.
By Daniel Stone Newsweek Web Exclusive
Apr 2, 2008 Updated: 1:45 p.m. ET Apr 2, 2008
There are a lot of reasons to drink green tea. Study after study links the antioxidant-rich drink to a host of health benefits. Now researchers at Egypt's University of Alexandria point to a new reason to brew up some green: it boosts the effectiveness of antibiotics in fighting harmful bacteria and drug-resistant superbugs like MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus).
Egyptian researchers tested green tea in combination with antibiotics against 28 disease-causing microorganisms belonging to two different classes: green tea enhanced the bacteria-killing activity of the antibiotics in every case. The study, presented this week at a meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Edinburgh, Scotland, showed that green tea made one in five drug-resistant bacteria susceptible to one of the cephalosporin antibiotics (a class of antibiotics that some strains of bacteria have mutated to resist).
The boost in antibiotic effectiveness may become a welcome weapon in the fight against a growing number of antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals and community settings. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2 million people in the U.S. are affected each year by antibiotic-resistant infections caused by bacteria, like MRSA, which survive by mutating to avoid the effects of antibiotics.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/130117
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