“You’re an idiot. This friggin’ thing damned near killed me in 2006.”
“Me too.”
Actually it was the hospital that almost killed you. Almost certainly the MRSA was acquired from contact with the staff. What they are saying in the media that MSRA is on everyone’s skin is BS. Staph aureus is normal flora on the skin, but those strains are not very antibiotic resistant. These strains are a problem, not a crisis.
I had it before I went to the hospital. My previous visit to a hospital was 4 months earlier.
Now, I do have regular contact with medical professionals both professionally and personally. They could have transmitted it to me.
as a hospital worker, one can culture MRSA on my skin at any time. Yes the dangerous staph can colonize the skin of healthy people and has spread outside of hospitals. There is a lot of MRSa out in the community at large. So much so in fact that if we see someone with a pus forming lesion or cellulitis, we assume it is MRSA when we treat it.