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RID Recommends MRSA Screening for Professional Sports Teams

On October 29, 2008, in response to the recent news regarding the spread of MRSA in the National Football League, the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) issued a press release that recommends NFL teams and other sports organizations screen their athletes for MRSA. RID published a 12-step brochure that explains how screening and other precautions can eradicate MRSA from a sports team's environment. Keeping equipment clean is one of the ways to remove MRSA germs and protect athletes from being infected. Players can be carriers of the MRSA germ without even realizing it. The germ doesn't make them sick until it gets inside their body, usually via a cut or turf burn. When a player tests positive, simple steps can be taken to remove the bacteria before it gets inside the player's body and causes an infection. Teams that fail to implement these readily available precautions will be vulnerable to lawsuits when players contract MRSA. To read more about RID and this press release, please click here.

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NFL Plagued by Staph Infections

Last week Cleveland Browns player, Kellen Winslow, revealed that he suffered from his second staph infection. Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts also recently contracted a staph infection. The Browns, as well as a number of NFL teams, have been battling these infections with increasing frequency for the last five years. How do professional athletes, who have all the latest technology and a wealth of resources, contract these dangerous infections? That is what is alarming the sports world as more and more staph cases occur. The dangerous form of staph infection, called community-associated MRSA, was born in the late 1990s, and is now widespread in the community. The US Center for Disease Control reports that the deaths of four children from MRSA in North Dakota and Minnesota during the late 1990s "demonstrate the potential severity of community-acquired MRSA infections." A study on the St. Louis Rams published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2003 found that during the 2003 football season, there were eight MRSA infections among five of the 58 Rams players. MRSA may spread particularly easily among athletes because they have repeated skin-to-skin contact, and come into contact with shared items, equipment and surfaces that have a hard time staying clean. If bacteria enter the body through bruises, cuts and abrasions, then athletes can become infected. To read more about this alarming trend in the NFL, please click here. To protect yourself from staph infections and MRSA, keep your equipment clean with Super Clean service.

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Football Has Higher Incidence of MRSA in High School Athletics

A study conducted in the fall of 2005 of high school athletic programs in Texas shows that MRSA is more prevalent in the sport of football than other high school sports that were surveyed. Although MRSA occurs in many different sports settings, the deadly bacteria are more likely to be spread in contact settings such as football. To see the numbers, please click here. Super Clean has two cleaning processes (one of which is mobile) that are scientifically proven to remove MRSA bacteria from football equipment.

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USC Football Afflicted with Skin Rash from Equipment

On August 14, 2008, the Los Angeles Times reported that approximately 25% of USC's football team has been afflicted with a skin rash called 'tinea cruris', more commonly known as "jock itch". Although seemingly not as serious as a ligament or knee injury, the rash has caused key players to miss practice. In recent years, the team has been crippled by more serious skin infections such as staph infections, in response to which the team had increased the temperature at which they washed the uniforms. Studies prove that Super Clean's wet wash process is more effective than conventional laundering is at killing bacteria that cause skin rashes. To read more about USC's situation, click here.

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