MRSA Notes

I know this from a very personal standpoint, and I know lots of others here at MRSA Resources do too.  Scares me/us to death.

MercuryNews.com | 03/05/2006 | A SPORTS SCOURGE

San Jose State basketball player Demetrius Brown thought the small bump on his stomach might be an ingrown hair. Oak Grove High School running back Jerid Ferranti thought the red spot on his right shin was just a spider bite. Jeff Ulbrich, a 49ers linebacker, believed the same about the innocuous-looking bump on his forearm.

All three were wrong. Each had something that was potentially far worse. The athletes were infected with a nasty bug that has invaded the sports world:

Drug-resistant staph.

Public-health officials say that locker rooms and fields of play have become havens for the resourceful bacterium, which can be transmitted by physical contact and the sharing of such items as sports equipment, towels, razors and bars of soap.

“This is the tip of the iceberg,’’ said Dr. Tim McAdams, a Stanford team physician. “The fact that it affects athletic individuals who are the pillar of health is very concerning to us.’’

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