The outbreaks are not reason enough to cancel a planned trip. There are no special measures required because simple good sense dictates the following approach under all conditions - outbreak or not. You will recently have received the rather full, though good, CMO Update 10. In this, reference was made to frank neuropsychiatric side-effects from mefloquine occurring with an incidence of about 1 in 10,000. Multiple resistance to the popular antibiotics of the time, tetracycline and erythromycin and so on, arose in the 1950s but clinical problems were kept at bay with penicillinase-resistant agents such as cloxacillin, methicillin and later derivatives.
Some strains fortunately remain sensitive to gentamicin.
There is still some doubt as to how virulent MRSA is. Nursing Homes pose several problems. They are a reservoir of colonisation. They are taking in compromised patients, potentially provide a medium of transfer, and periodically feed colonised or infected patients back into the hospital system. In the hospital setting, transfer of MRSA is usually effected by staff - either directly or via fomites.