Post by SyZyGy on Feb 26, 2006 10:55:23 GMT -5
"Staph Infections Seen As Growing Threat" - read the HC headline of 2/26/2006. Written by a contributor to the Los Angeles TImes, it was sub-headed: "Bacteria Resistant To Many Powerful Antibiotics".
Our children in the WPS may have something else to worry about while "playing" sports:
Within 24 hours, the what was supposed to be a "bite" became a 6-inch welt with a bubble of pus that eventually ripened (?) into a black wound. Over the next few months, scabs dotted her face. A hangnail caused her ...finger to bloat into a sausage. Her pierced ears oozed pus.. ..methicillin-resistent Staph' aureus...community-acquired.. ..infections.. ..The rapidity with which this has emerged over the lst two to three years is probably unprecedented.. ..In 2003, five football players with the St. Louis Rams developed lesions on their elbows, forearms and knees, where turf burns had opened up their skin. Players from a competing team eveloped sores after playing against the Rams [on that artificial-turfed field].. ..The community strain is.. ..less resistent to drugs. But it is more virulent.. ..[the germ] can linger on the skin without causing infection, waiting to enter through a cut or abrasion. Unlike many other germs, it can survive hours, possibly days, on inanimate objects such as towels...
...or wrestling mats, benches, equipment, baseball bats, basketballs, football equipment, and artificial turf.
I hope the Town, the BOE /WPS and the public health department is taking notice of this and plans to do something about it - for our kids!