A young Kentucky soccer player recently passed away due to an MRSA infection, reminding everyone that this bacteria can strike without warning. However, deaths of healthy adults outside of hospitals due to MRSA are still quite rare.
Entries Tagged ‘mrsa’
Thinking Rationally About Acceptable Risk
The media has a tendency to overhype dangers to children that in reality are extremely unlikely to occur. Unfortunately, many parents tend to lose perspective as to what is an acceptable risk and forget how much danger they put their kids in just by driving them to and allowing them to participate in youth soccer.
Run Away! It’s MRSA!
MRSA caused quite a bit of hysteria in the media this past October. While it is a serious disease, it also is quite rare and clearly many school districts and other organizations over reacted. There is a lot of good information available to help groups prevent the spread of this and other communicable diseases.
