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A new study released by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention indicates that drug-resistant staph infections are increasing at an alarming rate in America.
The bacteria is becoming very difficult to treat as it is mutating into forms that do not respond to traditional drugs.
Doctors are reporting that because the bacteria is being seen in more and more places, serious illnesses as a result of people coming into contact with the bacteria are also increasing.
“Until recently we rarely thought of it as a problem among healthy people in the community,” said Dr. Rachel Gorwitz of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In years past, the bacteria was usually confined to hospitals, nursing homes, and other types of long-term care facilities.
Now the bacteria is being found in high schools, locker rooms, and in many other forms of public places.
People generally carry methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on their skin, or in their nose without showing any form of symptoms, but it is when this bacteria transfers to other people that problems arise.
If the germ gets into a person’s bloodstream it can be fatal, but if it is contained to the skin, it is not.
