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On MRSA

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

from yahoo sports on an article discussing J.T. Snow, Jack Snow, and Kellen Winslow:

This was a lesson the Rams learned the hard way: In the fall of 2003, five St. Louis players came down with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), an increasingly common strain of staph which does not respond to the methicillin, thus requiring stronger antibiotics. Though the team did not go public with the outbreak, it did call the Center For Disease Control for help, and subsequent research concluded that turf burns, shared towels and unsanitary communal whirlpools and weights were likely causes.

See also:

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2005/08/jjethicon-gets-patent-on-predicting.html

Full post as published by IPBiz on November 15, 2008 (boomark / email).