MRSA Notes

Emergency room doctors gave the 20-month-old girl
with strawberry-blond hair standard antibiotics to treat a high fever
and mild rash that looked like windburn. Then they sent her home.

The
antibiotics were useless, however, because Gillian Young was ill with
what’s becoming a common antibiotic-resistant bug. The infection
quickly left pea-sized lumps all over her body and fluid on her lungs
and heart, and also ate a hole in her liver.

“In three days, it took over her little body,” said
Denise Young, the toddler’s mother. “She was lifeless. We would talk to
her and she would look right through you.”

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