MRSA Symptoms now outside hospitals

Link: Team Slayer - OrlandoSentinel.com

     The deadly bacteria always were contained to hospitals, feasting on people with weak immune systems, people already sick.

But the bacteria have left the hospitals -- and they are stronger, tougher to treat. They are bringing down healthy people, young people. Athletes.

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In the fall of 2000, 10 players on a Pennsylvania college football team got staph infections. Seven were hospitalized.

A few years ago, an intern in the athletic trainer's office at UCF got staph by scraping his leg against a table. He had to have half his calf removed.

In 2002, two players on a Los Angeles college football team were hospitalized from a staph infection. One athlete's infection was so bad he had to have the infected skin around his wound surgically removed and a skin graft put in place to cover it.

"There are different strains of staph infections -- flesh-eating, bone-eating," said Kevin Mercuri, head trainer for the Orlando Predators and former head trainer for UCF. He was there when his intern contracted the staph infection.

"It can be deadly."

The Centers for Disease Control says there is not an epidemic -- but it is an increasing problem. It also says other groups of people are also at risk -- people who are incarcerated, homosexuals and children. It's a concern among people who have skin-to-skin contact.

Comments

[This is real]

When AIDS was first being discovered the Centers for Disease Control said that...this is not an epidemic...If they are saying that now...we need to be concerned as to where MRSA is heading...very concerned