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  • Drug-resistant staph striking the healthy

    09/30/2004 3:06:21 PM PDT · by neverdem · 50 replies · 1,545+ views
    The News & Observer (NC) ^ | Sep 30, 2004 | LINDA A. JOHNSON
    The Associated Press Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors. The cause? Staph, a bacteria better known for causing skin boils easily treated with standard antibiotic pills. No more, say infectious disease experts, who increasingly are seeing these "super bugs" -- strains of Staphylococcus aureus unfazed by the entire penicillin family and other first-line drugs. Until a few years ago, these drug-resistant infections were unheard of except in hospital patients, prison inmates and the chronically ill. Now, resistant strains are infecting healthy children, athletes...