Link: Dangerous superbug takes hold across Canada, scientists fear.
A dangerous strain of a superbug that can be caught outside hospital settings has moved beyond the boundaries of the high-risk groups it first plagued in Canada, causing illness in healthy adults and children in a number of provinces across the country, researchers reported Tuesday.
In a series of articles and commentaries rushed to print by the Canadian Medical Association Journal, they reported on the spread of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — known in the medical community as CA-MRSA.
The drug-resistant forms of the bug that are spreading in the community — strains labelled USA300 and USA400 — generally cause hard-to-treat skin and soft-tissue infections, weeping wounds that will not heal.
