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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION |
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| INTRODUCED BY HESS, GEIST, STERN, BOBACK, CALTAGIRONE, D. COSTA, FARRY, GOODMAN, HENNESSEY, HORNAMAN, M.K. KELLER, KNOWLES, KULA, MANN, MARSHALL, MILLER, MUNDY, MURT, PICKETT, PYLE, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROCK, K. SMITH, SWANGER, VULAKOVICH, WATSON AND YOUNGBLOOD, JANUARY 27, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, JANUARY 27, 2011 |
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| A RESOLUTION |
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1 | Urging the Department of Health to revise its disease monitoring |
2 | practices in this Commonwealth. |
3 | WHEREAS, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) |
4 | is a bacterial infection that is highly resistant to some |
5 | antibiotics; and |
6 | WHEREAS, MRSA infection is fairly common, and most of it does |
7 | not have public health consequences; and |
8 | WHEREAS, MRSA infections can lead to invasive disease of the |
9 | joints, organs or bloodstream, which can be serious; and |
10 | WHEREAS, MRSA illness can be transmitted within the community |
11 | in settings like schools, correctional facilities or athletic |
12 | settings; and |
13 | WHEREAS, Public health intervention in the community can help |
14 | stop the spread of the disease; and |
15 | WHEREAS, The Department of Health regulations are not |
16 | consistent in that they require the reporting of chicken pox, |
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1 | while ignoring MRSA; therefore be it |
2 | RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives urge the |
3 | Department of Health to publish revisions to its regulations on |
4 | disease monitoring practices in this Commonwealth; and be it |
5 | further |
6 | RESOLVED, That the surveillance of Methicillin-resistant |
7 | Staphylococcus aureus in community settings be addressed in the |
8 | new regulation; and be it further |
9 | RESOLVED, That the new regulation treat Methicillin-resistant |
10 | Staphylococcus aureus infections as seriously as chicken pox; |
11 | and be it further |
12 | RESOLVED, That the Department of Health promulgate the new |
13 | regulation as proposed rulemaking within 90 days. |
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