The St. Clair County Health Department is continuing its efforts to provide timely information to the community regarding public health concerns as they arise. This Health Updates page is your web source for information on new developments as well as updates to existing issues being monitored by the St. Clair County Health Department.
We will be posting documents regarding these health concerns on this web page. The documents will be in PDF format and can be read with Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free software product available for download from Adobe's website at http://www.adobe.com. If you have further questions regarding public health issues, please contact the St. Clair County Health Department at (810) 987-5300.
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Recent reports on the prevalence of MRSA have prompted many telephone inquiries and many questions regarding available data on MRSA cases. Individual case reports are not reportable in Michigan; therefore prevalence rates for either Healthcare Associated MRSA (HA-MRSA) or Community Associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) are unknown. Outbreaks, however, are reportable to the local health department. An outbreak is defined as “three or more culture-positive cases in a facility or in a community that are epidemiologically linked and transmission (spread) is plausible.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new web site that will help answer many questions about management of MRSA in schools: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/MRSAinSchools/
The CDC website also has treatment guidelines for Community Associated MRSA as well as information on Healthcare Associated MRSA.
Media information can be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/community/media.htm
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