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MRSA Infections on the Rise

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SOURCES: 2007 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Neil Fishman, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

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When 35-year-old Whitney Lester noticed a small bump on his left hip, he thought it was a spider bite.

Whitney Lester, Patient:

Really barely noticeable but within a few days time, had formed into something that was painful and larger.

Narrator:

By the time he went to the hospital, he was feverish with a lump on his hip the size of a tennis-ball. An alert nurse knew just what it was.

Whitney Lester, Patient:

She nailed it right away. She said this looks like MRSA, which of course I had no idea what she was talking about.

Narrator:

It's a staph (staff) infection called MRSA (MERSA). The bacteria look like this under the microscope. The skin infection can look like this ... Or like this.

Neil Fishman, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania:

The infections can be serious but can be treated very easily, if they're caught early.

Narrator:

Whitney has no idea how he picked up his staph infection. About 30-percent of the population carry staph bacteria on their body and about one percent carry the drug- resistant kind, MRSA. Most don't get sick from it.

Neil Fishman, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania:

So they can get it from their own bodies, or they can pick it up from the environment.

Narrator:

Good basic hygiene can help prevent it.

Neil Fishman, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania:

Particularly washing your hands with soap and water or using one of the alcohol hand rubs that are available in the drug store, in the supermarket.

Narrator:

Whitney had to have surgery to cut out the infected tissue, leaving a crater in his hip.

Whitney Lester, Patient:

They started with some fairly strong antibiotics and after a day they did more surgery to get the remains out and gave, and then gave me, upped it to the strongest antibiotics that they had in the hospital.

Narrator:

Today, this is the only reminder of his brush with a bad bug. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.

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