George L. Fiedler III R.N.

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UNDERSTANDING MRSA AND VRSA

There is an uprecedented pandemic in our midst concerning an organism that lives on everyones skin surface. It is a well known bacteria named Staphylococcus Aureus. Of itself it is harmless and a bacteria that is genetically personal to each individual. However over the decades, with the overuse of ANTIBIOTICS, it was discovered to mutate to a more virulent form of bacteria that is now costing Americans billions of dollars a year. The new names for two such mutations are MRSA

April 27, 2007