• One of the problems with MRSA, one of the reasons why it’s become what I consider a true crisis, is that I really don’t think we’ve been taking it sufficiently seriously for a very long time.
• “Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA” author Maryn McKenna • Regarding one of the deadliest, most-resistant diseases out there, and one that’s often been ignored by those with power to stop it. The drug, which kills 19,000 each year and sickens millions more, is infamous in hospitals, where it infected one Seattle hospital so badly in 1980 that they had to close the intensive-care and burn units and build new ones. Now it’s worse and more drug-resistant than it’s ever been. Scared? source

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