MRSA Notes

Um….let me just say, if anyone reading this belongs to this gym - run, don’t walk, away. This is scary, dangerous and negligent, and for them to say these things to a newspaper is really unbelievable to me. The gist is that this particular gym, despite going through a huge and expensive overhaul […]

Firefighters are trying to protect themselves from an aggressive,
flesh-eating bacteria. The number of firefighters contracting MRSA is
on the rise. In the past year, four firefighters in the Tucson area
have contracted MRSA. That may not sound like much, but physicians have
seen more MRSA cases […]

Wrestlers infected with staph | www.azstarnet.com ®
“Staph is a skin germ, and think about a wrestler, with all that moisture and all that contact on the mat,” said Dr. Michelle McDonald, the Pima County Health Department’s chief medical officer.
“Any skin germ is going to take an opening in the skin. If you’ve got mat rub […]

Bisbee wrestling team asked not to attend upcoming meet due to health concerns | www.azstarnet.com ®
The Bisbee High School wrestling team will not compete in this weekend’s Douglas Invitational due to health concerns after one of the team’s wrestlers was exposed to staph bacteria during a meet in Safford two weeks ago.
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“At least six Deming High athletes — Wildcat wrestlers — have contracted Staph (Staphyloccus) Bacteria, and one has been hospitalized with a mutant strain commonly known in the medical profession as MRSA — “The Super Bug.”
Wildcat wrestlers were on a trip last weekend to the Safford Invitational Tournament in Safford Arizona when the infection was […]

Dr. Sean Elliot at University Medical Center is reacting to publishedreports in a Tucson paper about a bacteria called MRSA. The headlinereads, “Superbug that eats flesh is on the loose.”
“I cringed, the story would suggest this is a brand new, hot off thepresses of urgency and that’s not the fact at all,” Dr. Sean Elliott […]

You know, I am all for spreading the word about MRSA, but this article just screams PANIC. I don’t think that is the way to do it. But kudos for at least trying to get some attention to this horrible, horrible problem…
Superbug that eats flesh is on the loose
Potentially lethal bacteria infects hundreds […]