National Football League players have contracted 33 cases of the virulent skin infection known as MRSA over the past three years, a recent survey has found, a decrease of nearly 50 percent compared with a similar study completed in 2005. “The results are encouraging,” said Dr. Andrew Tucker, who conducted the survey and is president of the N.F.L. Team Physicians Society. Tucker said the dip in outbreaks indicates that teams have taken effective steps to prevent the spread of the infection, whose full name is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
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