[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Pages 23522-23523]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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  SENATE RESOLUTION 301--DESIGNATING OCTOBER 2, 2009, AS ``WORLD MRSA 
                                 DAY''

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

                              S. Res. 301

       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 topreventing 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

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     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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