A family in South Boston learned about MRSA (pronounced "MER-sa") - a type of "staph" infection resistant to most antibiotics - the hard way. The Ruggiero family's 3-year-old son, Matthew, had to have outpatient surgery to drain the infection while Mom Kristen spent four days in the hospital because of the infection.
"Dr. Rick Herman, chairman of emergency medicine at Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, said MRSA is changing the way doctors treat patient with skin infections. 'It's becoming so common we have to change our way of thinking,' he said. 'It used to be seen only in institutionalized patients, but now we see it in a healthy kid and healthy mom and we just don't know why.'"Read more about how to protect your family from MRSA online.
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