California's Department of Public Health announced recently that the state has mandated reporting for severe cases of staph infection and MRSA. California, in an effort to better understand this new epidemic and find ways of controling the spread of this dangerous disease, now requires that hospitals report these cases to local health departments, which will in turn forward such reports to the state level. Once confined to a hospital setting, MRSA is now affecting otherwise healthy people at an alarming rate. The amendment to Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, which added staph infections and MRSA to the list of reportable diseases, became effective in February 2008. To read more, click here.
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