This germ is freaking scary. Urban horror has nothing on this.

[gategrrl]

 MRSA staph germ worse than AIDS virus in number of deaths. And that's only the tip of the iceberg.

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[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

This is scary. My daughter got a notice under her dorm room door the other day that there's an epidemic of this at her school. I've been reading up about it because of that, and, yeah, it's pretty scary.

What I read in other news articles is that they are discovering these staph infections in places where you wouldn't expect it--in healthy children or even under the skin where it's not visible, so doctors don't always know what they're treating.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

My daughter told me "epidemic," but it could be that "outbreak" is a more accurate term. *g* I didn't see the paper myself.