Coaches step up MRSA prevention

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in MRSA and Sport

Link: The Gillette News-Record: Local.

“Just don’t share.”

That’s one of the first things Tom Seamans tells his wrestlers at the beginning of each season.

And it was a particularly salient message this year after cases of the so-called “superbug” have popped up across the country.

The Campbell County High School head coach realizes that his athletes are at a greater risk than many others because their sport centers around skin-to-skin contact.

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That’s why he doesn’t want them using other people’s towels, razors, soap or any other personal items.

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Roger French January 5, 2008 at 11:52 am

Can you please enlighten me on the antimicrobial properties and protection of copper.

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