One Clear Dot

I’ve written numerous other articles on my other blogs about MRSA, the staph “super bug”. Here now is some new information about how the infection spreads.

One of the first reported transmissions between animal and human of MRSA is on the records. Apparently a German woman had been repeatedly battling the exact same strain of drug-resistant

Doctors have reported the first transmission of MRSA between a cat a German woman.

A German woman repeatedly battled the same strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aurous over and over, never seeming to be able to kick it. Finally, her cat was tested and found to have the same infection. The woman’s husband and children also carried the MRSA bug in their nasal passages, but the woman was the only one with outward signs –abscesses, or boils, all over her back.

One the family cat was treated with antibiotics, the woman overcame the MRSA.

We already know that MRSA is out in the community now and we need to be more careful than ever to wash our hands, sneeze into our shirtsleeves instead of our hands, and to treat all cuts and scrapes in a timely manner. Now, we need to keep animals in mind when considering the spread of the infection.

Posted on March 12th, 2008 by onecleardot
Filed under: Healthy Living