Earlier this year, the Canadian Medical Association Journal reported that "Clones of the antibiotic-resistant MRSA superbug which has infected a number of professional football and baseball athletes as well as children in day care centres in the US is set to take Canada by force."
Read more about the growing number of professional athletes who have been infected with MRSA, including three US National Football League (NFL) teams who have had to deal with multiple infections of the superbug, online.
"The Department of Infectious Diseases, and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto warn that a new MRSA mutant is quietly spreading outside of public awareness. Canadian health officials referred to this new strain of MRSA as 'an old foe with new fangs', a pathogen that combines 'virulence, resistance and an ability to disseminate at large'. Usually MRSA preys on vulnerable people like the elderly and people recovering from serious operations in hospital, but this new strain is infecting healthy people as well."Because healthy people carry the bacteria in their nostrils and on the skin, MRSA can be contracted through skin to skin contact or sneezing in warm damp or steamy areas (public showers, changing rooms, and locker rooms).
Read more about the growing number of professional athletes who have been infected with MRSA, including three US National Football League (NFL) teams who have had to deal with multiple infections of the superbug, online.
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