MRSA Notes

IslandPacket.com has the story of several athletes on Hilton Head island in SC who have been fighting MRSA as a result of very normal scratches and wounds attained during football games and practices:

The scratch on David Hutton’s left shin was an inch long and innocuous — the kind of “injury” an offensive lineman might suffer dozens of times each season.

Nothing to think twice about.

Nothing to bring a 6-foot-8, 390-pound beemoth off the field for treatment.

Nothing, for that matter, to interrupt even a kid’s backyard game of freeze tag.

But during the bus ride home from Wando High School, Hutton noticed the mark left by an opposing player’s cleat had turned red and swollen.

The moral of the story is - don’t fool around with infections. They grow and spread rapidly. If you think there is a problem, get to the doctor ASAP. And don’t miss the Stopping Staph reference in the right sidebar of this article as well - full of basic tips for infection prevention!

CA MRSA, Infection Prevention, MRSA, MRSA in Schools/Athletics, MRSA in the U.S., South Carolina

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