The Pittsburgh VA Healthcare System began a pilot program in 2001 to help reduce and control the spread of a non-resistant "superbug," the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The program seems to be working, according to the dramatic rate reduction being seen.

The germ can spread rapidly in both hospitals and nursing homes, and it can be very deadly. The MRSA infection is not only dangerous, but it's hard to fight, because it has a high resilience to most antibiotic drugs, which led to its "superbug" status

Although the first report of the potent bacterial strain of infection began in 1993 in Australia, the bug seems to have taken hold and spread across the U.S. in the last decade and has now begun to spread into Canada.

Canadian officials do not want to cause panic among the public; however CA-MRSA is apparently beginning to emerge within the community with more frequency

A 27-week-old baby boy has reportedly died and five other premature babies are currently under treatment from an unknonw viral outbreak in the neonatal ward of a hospital in Britain.

The babies are undergoing treatment at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after they were identified as being carriers of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) and tested positive for Staphylococcus aureus (S aureus)

For the first time ever, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has killed a healthcare worker and a patient at a hospital in the United Kingdom, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).

HPA said that after a healthcare worker died in September, it was researched that a form of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) MRSA had also claimed a patient's life

A study released on Wednesday says that boils and pimples severe enough to go to the hospital emergency rooms are caused by deadly bacteria that often cannot be treated with the usual regimen of drugs.

According to doctors at the University of California, Los Angeles, a deadly bug known as MRSA is the known to cause 59 percent of the skin and soft tissue infections seen in 11 emergency rooms across the U.S.