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Know more about Drug-Resistant Staph (MRSA)
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Staff Researcher on 25 October, 2007 12:57:00
 
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.’’
Read the complete NYTimes.com Blog.