Link: Hockey teams fight against MRSA.
Saginaw Spirit captain Patrick McNeill’s sweaty hands have company in his hockey gloves during practices and games.
A host of bacteria is along for the ride, keeping Spirit trainer Bryan Burnstein and equipment manager Jose Ortiz on their toes trying to prevent those nasty, microscopic critters from causing problems.
The biggest problem the pair tries to prevent is a staph infection, but in recent years a stronger, potentially deadly form of staph — methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA as it’s commonly known — has charged into the world of athletics, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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My son’s small private boys trade college has had a recent outbreak of mrsa staff infections.
8 in the last two weeks-several quite severe but out of hospital. What can we do to encourage the school to do something about this before it gets worse.
They are not attempting to do anything and the boys are all in close contact, school is kinda dirty.
Is there something i can do to prevent my son from getting this.
He is out tonite with his best friend who got it from cutting his arm on their couch.
Thanks for any help,
kathy peterson