Superbug That Eats Flesh Is On The Loose

.....Infection begins on the skin, triggering inflammation, boils or nasty abscesses that can take weeks of treatment to stop — including surgery and hospitalization. But if it moves to the bloodstream, mersa can cause bone infection....

....What is significant is that we are seeing lots of healthy individuals from the community who have developed severe skin disease, with more and ....

....Though mersa warnings have been sent out by federal and state health officials, Elliott, an infectious-disease specialist, still gets calls from doctors around Tucson asking about strange spider-bite cases that don't respond to treatment.....

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