Know more about Drug-Resistant Staph (MRSA)
Staph bacteria magnified 4,780 times
Staph a virulent strain of bacteria that resists many antibiotics appears to be killing more people annually than AIDS, emphysema or homicide, taking an estimated 19,000 lives in 2005, according to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, can prey on otherwise healthy people. A New York Times blog tells more about MRSA and how to be safe from it.
Excerpts: The best defense against the potentially deadly infection is common sense and cleanliness. “We need to reinvent hygiene for the 21st century,’’ said Dr. Charles Gerba, professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona at Tucson. “You go to a grocery store, and hundreds of thousands of people have touched those surfaces every day. Microorganisms are evolving very rapidly.’’
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