MRSA sucks ballz
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Here taken from webMD:
MRSA: Contagious, Symptoms, Casues, Prevention, Treatments
What Causes MRSA?
Garden-variety staph are common bacteria that can live on our bodies. Plenty of healthy people carry staph without being infected by it. In fact, 25%-30% of us have staph bacteria in our noses.
But staph can be a problem if it manages to get into the body, often through a cut. Once there, it can cause an infection. Staph is one of the most common causes of skin infections in the U.S. Usually, these are minor and don't need special treatment. Less often, staph can cause serious problems like infected wounds or pneumonia.
Staph can usually be treated with antibiotics. But over the decades, some strains of staph -- like MRSA -- have become resistant to antibiotics that once destroyed it. MRSA was first discovered in 1961. It's now resistant to methicillin, amoxicillin, penicillin, oxacillin, and many other antibiotics.
While some antibiotics still work, MRSA is constantly adapting. Researchers developing new antibiotics are having a tough time keeping up.
Who Gets MRSA?
MRSA is spread by contact. So you could get MRSA by touching another person who has it on the skin. Or you could get it by touching objects that have the bacteria on them. MRSA is carried, or "colonized," by about 1% of the population, although most of them aren't infected.
MRSA infections are common among people who have weak immune systems and are in hospitals, nursing homes, and other heath care centers. Infections can appear around surgical wounds or invasive devices, like catheters or implanted feeding tubes. Rates of infection in hospitals, especially intensive care units, are rising throughout the world. In U.S. hospitals, MRSA causes more than 60% of staph infections.
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Goddammit, read before you post, will ya?! The description is just in the post previous to yours.
If you really wanna know what it stands for, it's methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (though I doubt it'd matter to you).
And nation, my sincerest condolences. MRSA is a be0tch!
If you really wanna know what it stands for, it's methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (though I doubt it'd matter to you).
And nation, my sincerest condolences. MRSA is a be0tch!
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Goddammit, read before you post, will ya?! The description is just in the post previous to yours.
If you really wanna know what it stands for, it's methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (though I doubt it'd matter to you).
And nation, my sincerest condolences. MRSA is a be0tch!
If you really wanna know what it stands for, it's methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (though I doubt it'd matter to you).
And nation, my sincerest condolences. MRSA is a be0tch!
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damn bro thats scary, is there an end to it? or does it just hang around like herpies? not trying to be funny...just curious if theres an actual cure or long term relief for it.
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Goddammit, read before you post, will ya?! The description is just in the post previous to yours.
If you really wanna know what it stands for, it's methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (though I doubt it'd matter to you).
And nation, my sincerest condolences. MRSA is a be0tch!
If you really wanna know what it stands for, it's methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (though I doubt it'd matter to you).
And nation, my sincerest condolences. MRSA is a be0tch!
Last edited by 04caliwrx; 04-18-2012 at 11:55 AM.