Buffalo Boy's Blog

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071020/ap_on_he_me/staph_infections

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Nine athletes and a coach at Iona College contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, which has spread through schools nationwide, health officials said Friday.

I am a physical therapist and I can remember on one of my clinical affiliations back in the 1990's one of my clinical instructors told me to beware about MRSA. They said that if it makes it out of the hospitals look out. I never forgot that statement and here it is. Its out.

At the time it was confined to hospital/nursing home settings and under control. Lately its made it into the general public and remembering my CI's comments, its not a good thing. This bacteria is nasty. Many in the media will have you believe its something new. Its not its been there, it just hasn;t been outside the walls of healthcare institutions.

The fact that its running around schools is even scarier. The main transmission of this is going to be through cuts and lockerroom areas that are not sanitized.