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This is a very serious problem. I encourage everyone to learn about MRSA ( Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or "Mersa"). Google it. About 19,000 people die from it a year and that number is skyrocketing.

My mother got a cut on her finger, got a little bit infected, didnt think much about it, next thing she knows is sometime later, she had severe back pain. Turned out that it was a MRSA super bug that had got into her blood stream and attacked her spine, "dissolving" two vertebrae. She had emergency surcgery and barely survived the whole ordeal.

Signs of MRSA, usually a red spot or cluster of red spots, little pustules that resemble a bug bite or spider bite. If you see something like that, get it swabbed and checked for MRSA! People loose hands, arms, legs, muscle and die from not having it ID'd promptly. Make sure you wash your hands ALL the time. If you have a loved one in a nursing home, get a nasal swab test on them, they or you can easily get it in a nursing home (or hospital) environment.

You have been warned!

In early Feb I went through an airport metal detector, shoeless (with socks). My foot had a small cut on its bottom.

Within a week, I was in hospital being treated for MRSA staph aereous in my blood.

It attacked my urinary tract, prostate, kidneys and liver. Was stopped as it was just starting to hit my heart.

Nearly two months later, after being released for three-days and returning via ER, I was released from hospital and am still at home on medical leave. . .with twice-daily at-home IV treatments.

Docs say when I went through the metal detector I picked up the MRSA bacteria and the heat and moisture in my shoe was a perfect environment for the bacteria to thrive as it entered through my small cut.

I had previously picked up a foot fungus at the metal detector, and this fungus cracked my skin and this opened the door for MRSA.

WARNING: Airport metal detector portals are infectious disease factories, as they are never sanitized or cleaned, and gawd knows what “lives” there, being picked up and infecting others? Why doesn't the CDC or some doctor do a medical study of those metal detector portals?

DOUBLE WARNING: What's to stop terrorists from putting MRSA bacteria in their shoes, or anthrax, going shoeless through the metal detector and thereby infecting thousands.