Yes!
I have worked in hospitals for the past 30 years. I try the best I can to practice good hygiene. Hand washing, disinfectant gel, pressing elevator buttons with my knuckle. I lost a hip to MRSA. I almost lost my life. Three, three- month courses of IV antibiotics to finally get clear.
Hospitals test staff for Hep B, Hep C, TB. They still do NOT test for MRSA. I asked a Hospital Infection Control person why not test for MRSA.? They shrugged their shoulders and said “Why?”. It is so pervasive they assume most of the workers carry it in their nose and swabs would test positive. Even if they treated their noses to clear it, in a few months it would be back.
For anyone not worried, I suggest you visit a major hospital ER on a Friday night. Spend just one hour in the ER waiting room and just imagine one of the patients coming through the door positive for Ebola. Watch what they touch, from the registration desk, bathroom, vending machine knobs, etc. Then watch the kids roaming the room. Look at the floor and the puddles of “liquids” you stepped in and will bring back to your car, and home, unless you stop at Wal-Mart on the way home.
Yes, I am really, really worried.
Good grief, I’m gonna have to live in a bubble after reading that. I work with hospitals and go through them all the time.
I know this is way after the fact regarding your MRSA nightmare, but, check out this product (no, I don’t sell it or anything else). http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Abarbicide
It was originally geared for barber shops but is now marketed for “Hospital germicide, pseudomonacide, fungicide and virucide”. Reading the fine print on my container states “When tested with full immersion for 10 minutes in a solution prepared as above Barbicide has been found to be effective against:...Staphylococcus aureus methicillin resistant (MRSA),...”