US Football Taking MRSA Action

Link: GoErie.com: Defend against MRSA.

It's a fact of football life. Offensive linemen get bloody hands. Scraped and torn knuckles are common when you use your hands to block pass rushers. At Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, linemen used to ignore their wounds or rubbed dirt in them. Now athletic trainers stand nearby, ready to clean the cuts and scrapes, coat them in antibiotic cream and bandage them. It's just one way football is dealing with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better known as MRSA. "It's a concern. People have to realize MRSA is more prevalent than it used to be," said Gary Hanna, Edinboro's head athletic trainer. "It's not some exotic disease."