A potentially deadly staph infection called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, has taken root in the locker room of Greg Schiano’s Buccaneers this season. The scene was jarring last Sunday at the Georgia Dome, straight out of the movie “Outbreak”: A Hazmat crew, wearing white jumpsuits, white surgical masks, and blue latex gloves, cleaning out [...]
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By MICHAEL T. OSTERHOLM MINNEAPOLIS THERE has been a flurry of recent attention over two novel infectious agents: the first, a strain of avian influenza virus (H7N9) in China that is causing severe respiratory disease and other serious health complications in people; the second, a coronavirus, first reported last year in the Middle East, that has brought a crop of new infections. While the number of human cases from these two pathogens has so far been limited, the death rates for each are notably high. Alarmingly, we face a third, and far more widespread, ailment that has gotten little attention: call it “contagion exhaustion.” News reports on a seemingly unending string of frightening microbes — bird flu, flesh-eating strep, SARS, AIDS, Ebola, drug-resistant bugs in hospitals, the list goes on — have led some people to ho-hum the latest reports. […]
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