HR1277 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

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; and

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; and

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; and

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 the implementation of a broad and proactive prevention program; and

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 designated the 2nd of October as 'World MRSA Day' in order to call attention to this worldwide epidemic; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we designate the month of October 2010 as World MRSA Awareness Month in the State of Illinois; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the MRSA Survivors Network.