{"id":127,"date":"2007-10-29T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T18:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/mrsa-staph-infections-and-you\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T14:36:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T20:36:54","slug":"mrsa-staph-infections-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/29\/mrsa-staph-infections-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"MRSA\/Superbug\/Staph Infections&#8211; and You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent newspaper articles about an anti-biotic resistant strain of staph infection (MRSA) have caused much concern among the membership.\u00a0 Some lawyers have reported seeing clients who have contracted the MRSA infection and are concerned about whether they are putting themselves at risk by visiting clients in jail and generally being around infected clients.\u00a0\u00a0Local leadership\u00a0is working on this issue with management and is providing some infromation about MRSA so that the membership can be more informed in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/mrsa\/ID00049\"><font color=\"#003399\">Click here: MRSA: Understand your risk and how to prevent infection &#8211; MayoClinic.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15391478\"><font color=\"#003399\">Click here: NPR : Staph Killing More Americans Than AIDS<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, Dr. Chad Zawitz, infection control\u00a0officer at Cermak Health Services is going to give a presentation on MRSA on <strong>November 6, 2007 at 2:00 p.m<\/strong>. at the <strong>7th Floor<\/strong> Library at 2650 S. California.\u00a0 Please attend if you would like to know more about MRSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent newspaper articles about an anti-biotic resistant strain of staph infection (MRSA) have caused much concern among the membership.\u00a0 Some lawyers have reported seeing clients who have contracted the MRSA infection and are concerned about whether they are putting themselves at risk by visiting clients in jail and generally being around infected clients.\u00a0\u00a0Local leadership\u00a0is working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}