England has just reported that the aggressive super bug MRSA has claimed the lives of a patient and health care worker at a hospital.
Antibiotics are useless against this strain and it can produce a deadly pneumonia in patients and kill them within 24 hours.
It is mostly found in nursing homes where it attacks the frail elderly and can easily transmit to health care providers.
When I was an Activity Director at a home I had to gear up to enter isolation where the patients with MRSA were kept. There were never many at all, because we were so careful with the isolation and undressing procedures upon finishing our therapies.
MRSA is dangerous and nothing to fool around with.