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Article: STAPH INFECTING HEALTHY PERSONS A MAJOR WORRY.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2004
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Byline: Linda Johnson Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. -- 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, ...