As always, WebMD’s articles are always scary. At least, they tend to scare me shitless. I remember a long time ago, I had a rash on my… let’s just say I had a rash… So I tried to describe as best as I can what I have to a trusty webmd.com’s search box……. 3 minutes later I was in my car on my way to the doc, shaking.  The doc just said something like “go wash it in salted water, take vitamin C, and go to bed”. Couldn’t sleep. Next day? Nothing! 
Anyway, here is WebMD’s article on MRSA.
Community-Associated MRSA (CA-MRSA)
But MRSA is also showing up in healthy people who have not been living in the hospital. This type of MRSA is called community-associated MRSA, or CA-MRSA. The CDC reports that in 2003, 12% of people with MRSA infections had CA-MRSA.
Studies have shown that rates of CA-MRSA infection are growing fast. One study of children in south Texas found that cases of CA-MRSA had a 14-fold increase between 1999 and 2001.
CA-MRSA skin infections have been identified among certain populations that share close quarters or experience more skin-to-skin contact. Examples are team athletes, military recruits, and prisoners. However, more and more CA-MRSA infections are being seen in the general community as well, especially in certain geographic regions.
It’s also infecting much younger people. In a study of Minnesotans published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, the average age of people with MRSA in a hospital or healthcare facility was 68. But the average age of a person with CA-MRSA was only 23.
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The fear is truly here. I personally know about twenty people who have MRSA and about as many again who I believe have it and wont admit it. It has hit the drug using community and everyone they associate with in my area, Eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa, very hard. Afraid? I’m terrified. Web MD doesn’t tell you in detail about all of the people whose whole family are covered in huge, deep, painful, boils who are so desperate they are bathing in bleach daily. Wanna be really scared? Read Adaptation in Survival at http://www.mrsaresources .com !
Rhonda, i’m reading your blog. some scarry stuff.
Is that real? this story, this is scary:
http://rhoda.mrsastory.com/2007/04/28/mrsa-warning-ignored-in-er/
I took my daughter to the ER last night or a broken finger and a UTI. While we were checking her in I asked if they needed to be notified if she has MRSA.
“Has what?â€
“MRSA. M-R-S-A.â€
M-R-S-E? I can check her records.â€
“No, Mam. M-R-S-A.â€
She checks her computer and finds there is no previous note of it although we have been there before so she scribbles it on a piece of paper for us to give the admitting nurse which we dutifully did. She glanced at it and went on with getting us registered and proceeded to put us in a double room with another patient. Then when they came in to examine and work on my daughter not one of them thought or bothered to even put on gloves or wash their hands before leaving the room. I wonder if they ever did before going on to other patients.
I had it last summer. I live alone and have no contact with schools, sports, hospitals..or prisons. Some of the nurses where I was being treated had never heard of MRSA, another gave me an article to read on how prevalent it is in prisons..again, nothing to do with me! It is definitely out there in the general public. Be alert.