MRSA Strains Spreading Outside US Hospitals

"Community strains of MRSA are affecting athletes, prisoners and small children in growing numbers across the United States, infectious disease experts said on Wednesday. 'MRSA is showing up in places it had never been seen before - as a predominant cause of skin disease among children in some regions of the country, as clusters of abscesses among sports participants, as the most common cause of skin infections among inmates in some jails and among military recruits and rarely, as a severe and sometimes fatal lung or bloodstream infection in previously healthy people,' said Dr. Daniel Jernigan from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."