[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 301 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 301

          Designating October 2, 2009, as ``World MRSA Day''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 5, 2009

    Mr. Burris (for himself and Mr. Durbin) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
          Designating October 2, 2009, as ``World MRSA Day''.

Whereas methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causes deadly 
        infections in patients that are receiving treatment in health care 
        facilities and affects numerous individuals within our Nation's 
        communities;
Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that 
        hospital-acquired MRSA infections killed more than 19,000 individuals in 
        the United States in 2006;
Whereas patient and consumer advocacy organizations around the world are lending 
        their voices to a call for leadership and an international commitment to 
        preventing and eradicating MRSA, a disease that has reached pandemic 
        levels and is spreading at an alarming rate;
Whereas patient and consumer advocacy organizations are calling upon health care 
        officials and government leaders to step up and take a more 
        comprehensive approach to stopping MRSA through implementation of a 
        broad and proactive prevention program;
Whereas the MRSA Survivors Network, the first consumer organization in the 
        United States to raise awareness concerning the MRSA epidemic and other 
        such multi-drug resistant health care-acquired infections, has announced 
        that October 2, 2009, has been designated as ``World MRSA Day'', which 
        shall be commemorated annually on such date; and
Whereas the MRSA Survivors Network has also designated the month of October as 
        ``World MRSA Awareness Month'' in order to call attention to this 
        worldwide epidemic: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate designates October 2, 2009, as ``World 
MRSA Day''.
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