Link: enewscourier, Athens
Two West Limestone High School football players recently contracted staph infections. One player was treated and cured swiftly. But the other, Tyler McClung, was hospitalized for several days with a serious staph infection on his left shin. It began as a sore on his leg and turned into a painful infection.
McClung was lucky.
Staph infections can be deadly, particularly if they are not identified quickly or they are the drug-resistant type.
In 2004, a student at Athens Middle School died from a staph infection. At first, no one knew what was making Hunter Bauer sick. He was sent to Athens-Limestone Hospital, Huntsville Hospital and Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, where the cause of his illness was identified. But doctors could not save him.
