In recent weeks, drug-resistant staph infections have been making the headlines. Top US doctors are now calling staphylococcus aureus bacteria as the cockroach of bacteria due to its ability to lurk in various places and spread easily clinging on unwashed hands.
The culprit is MRSA, or methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, which is a form of the most common staph family of germs. Statistics reveal that about one in every three people carries staph aureus bacteria in their noses, and about one million people carry the MRSA type.
Over time, germs evolve to withstand treatment. Most staph is no longer treatable by the granddaddy of antibiotics, penicillin. By the 1960s, staph also began developing resistance to a narrow-spectrum antibiotic, methicillin.
While MRSA is not a new problem, public anxiety about bacterial infection is. But the recent turn of events should not trigger any panic as this isn’t something just floating around in the air, said Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Staph infections occur only during close contact like sharing towels and razors, or rolling on the wrestling mat...
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