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The problem is not MRSA contamination on surfaces.

MRSA lives in many peoples GI tracts peacefully, in a balance with other microorganisms.

Human intestines typically have between 300-1000 different varieties of microorganisms living there, and many of them are pathological. Of these, the vast majority are only 30-40 species, which occupy most of the available space, and “shoulder out” most pathogens.

However, MRSA has become immune to most antibiotics. So when a person takes antibiotics, a lot of their *other* bacteria are killed off, and this opens a large area for the MRSA to have a population explosion.

And once you have that much MRSA in your system, it becomes a very grave problem.

So the solution to this, which has already been tried at some hospitals, is to tightly restrict the use of antibiotics to just the few people for whom they are essential. This has been shown to radically reduce the number of MRSA infections.

In future, it is likely to become standard practice to analyze the stool of all patients entering a hospital, and correct for any “floral deficiencies”, which can be caused by far more things than antibiotics. If a patient has such a deficiency, it should be easily corrected with a bacterial supplement pill.