Link: Houston Community Newspapers Online – The Courier – 10/23/2005 – Staph in Montgomery County.
A Willis High School football player was hospitalized several days ago with an infection caused by Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a strain of bacteria that has become resistant to Methicillin antibiotics. The football player was discharged from Conroe Regional Medical Center Friday, according CRMC spokeswoman Fritz Guthrie.
However, one Conroe woman told The Courier a staph infection that spread from her grandson, a football player at Oak Ridge High School, to his mother and father sent the father to the hospital in serious condition.
Bertha Burson’s grandson first had a staph infection last year.
“We thought it was just a spider bite, but it kept getting worse,” she said. “His mother took him to the doctor right away, and the doctor gave them medicine. It went away, but he got another one a few months later.”
