Sharing towels during football training camp significantly increased the risk of getting staph resistant MRSA infection at a Brooklyn high school camp where at least four – and possibly six – of 51 players interviewed developed MRSA. The problems occured in summer 2007, but the results were reported recently in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Players usually left their towels on a cot or on the floor. Shared soap didn’t increase their risk. Neither did washing their uniforms less than once a day,
via The Ledger.
