MRSA "superbug" warning

[srmom]

Lol any connection?

If she was dating an 8th grader!

He was pretty closed mouthed about his love life back then!



I recently heard about a woman in my neighborhood who had gone to a water park and scraped her arm on a slide. She got sick over the weekend and her husband took her to the doctor on Monday. She had died by Wednesday. Really sad, she was a young mom with two elementary age kids.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by srmom

I recently heard about a woman in my neighborhood who had gone to a water park and scraped her arm on a slide. She got sick over the weekend and her husband took her to the doctor on Monday. She had died by Wednesday. Really sad, she was a young mom with two elementary age kids.

FWIW, a friend of mine who works at the Atlanta CDC says that he would rather lick a petri dish than go to a water park. And since you all don't know him, he is most definitely not an alarmist.

[AGDee]

We got "the letter" home from school today, although I knew about it on Friday. A 9th grader at the high school has MRSA so they disinfected the school all weekend and sent home letters today. The marching band wasn't allowed to use the school over the weekend for their practices or to get ready for their competition. While the media didn't pick it up about our school, they've been announcing new schools daily. I think they started to realize that they were inciting panic though because they've changed how they discuss it now. Initially, they made it sound like everybody who got it died. Now they are talking about how treatable it is if caught early, which is a more useful message.