A Modern Plague » Scienceline.
MRSA, or Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is now a common topic of conversation in my family. But when my 82-year-old grandmother came down with it in September of 2010, I had no idea what it was. I half-remembered news reports of something bad, some new disease that lurked in hospitals and gyms, and I remembered that the R stood for “resistant,” but I knew nothing else.
