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MRSA is a potentially life threatening infections that is most often found in hospitals and in any areas where there is a large number of people. The acronym MRSA stands for Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. MRSA is nothing more than a Staphylococcus infection that has developed a high resistance to normal antibiotic medication. It is a flesh eating virus that can show on the body as a boil or blister on the skin which could grow to be fairly large. The areas affected with MRSA will have pain an irritation associated with it. The MRSA infection can be transmitted from person to person rather easily. The E-Medicine Health website claims that up to two percent of all people are MRSA carriers. This makes the infection rate higher among athletes or people who participate in activities where there is skin to skin contact. The MRSA virus can survive for many hours without a host to grow on. This allows the virus to be transferred from person to person without physical contact through sharing clothing or by simply not cleaning a piece of gear off at the gym after it is used.
MRSA has been commonly categorized into a couple different subcategories. MRSA that is found in hospitals or around health car facilities is known as HA-MRSA. Another subcategory, CA-MRSA, affects normal healthy people. This would be the type of infection that someone would get from wrestling someone who was infected or touching a piece of gym equipment that has the MRSA virus on it. For these reasons, it is very important to wash thoroughly after using public equipment or swimming pools. According the the Center of Disease Control website, there are normally a little over 80,000 active cases of MRSA nationwide. Amazingly, “two in 100 pe...

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