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For Immediate Release:

February 2,2009

"Activism Marks First World MRSA Day"

Chicago-based MRSA Survivors Network announces the first "World MRSA
Day" to be held October 2, 2009 and commemorated each year after on
this date. October will also be designated "MRSA Awareness Month" and
will call attention to the worldwide epidemic. MRSA was first
discovered by Patricia Jevons, a microbiologist in the UK on Oct. 2,
1960 and nearly fifty years later, MRSA has spread worldwide.

Leading consumer patient advocates in their countries are lending
their voice to the call of world unity in leadership and commitment
in preventing and stopping MRSA, which is pandemic and rising at
alarming rates in healthcare facilities and in the community. They
call upon healthcare officials and leaders to step up and take a more
comprehensive approach to eradicate this preventable disease and
focus on a broad and pro-active prevention program.

The hope of "World MRSA Day" is to bring people together every year
to remind them of those who have lost their lives or have diminished
health because of a preventable disease. By working together, whether
as an advocate, scientist, healthcare worker, policy maker, student,
caregiver or a patient living with MRSA we can collectively heighten
the awareness and educate others on prevention.

To help provide education and awareness, a variety of events,
exhibits, materials, candlelight vigils and commemoration programs
are being planned and will be announced later.

For more information contact:

MRSA Survivors Network
Jeanine Thomas – National Spokesperson for MRSA - USA
630 654-4588
jthomas@...
www.mrsasurvviors.org