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Originally Posted by marcop
I didn't realize it was no big deal... I guess I panicked. Sorry.
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Or maybe I didn't panic:
"Another study led by the CDC and published in the October 17, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that MRSA would have been responsible for 94,360 serious infections and associated with 18,650 hospital stay-related deaths in the United States in 2005.[4][5] These figures suggest that MRSA infections are responsible for more deaths in the U.S. each year than AIDS."
I've come across a few girls over the last two years who had staph infections, but not MRSA. The difference between the two is MRSA is resistant to most antibiotics, and so a lot harder to treat. And any pathogen that kills at least 18,000 people a year in the US is probably not something to take lightly.