Outbreak Contained - MRSA Eradicated
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This paper comes from the Berry Bird Papers, held in the Palmerston North Community Archives. Berenice (Berry) Joubert Bird (1934-2020) was a nurse and leading advocate of infection control inititatives in the New Zealand healthcare system. In November 1976, Bird was appointed Staff Nurse in Infection Control at Palmerston North Hospital. She was promoted to the position of Charge Nurse Infection Control in 1980, then later to Nursing Supervisor, and subsequently Manager of Infection Control.
In January 1986, routine testing detected the presence of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in two patients in Palmerston North. MRSA was detected in 253 patients and 17 staff between 1986 and 1989.
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- Document
- Identifier
- 2024Pa_BerryBird-S2-F1-3_042917
- Archive
- Berry Bird Papers
- Date
- July 24, 1990
- Digitisation id
- 2024Pa_BerryBird-S2-F1-3_042917
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- Paper
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- Community Archives
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- Berenice Bird
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- Attribution + NonCommercial + NoDerivatives