MRSA update

MR is back at work. The hole in his leg is about the size of a quarter now and thankfully it was treated in time.

CA-MRSA stands for Community Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, a serious “super bug” that is everywhere and resistant to common antibiotics. If your skin is broken, you can get it and this is the stuff that you hear about where someone gets a paper cut and three days later they are dead, or getting their leg cut off. Serious stuff.

Outside of the body, it is fairly harmless and lives there undetected. But, the one person who has it can pass it to someone else with direct or indirect contact. Let’s say there are three techs in a shop, one of them has staph germs on his hand and grabs a door knob. Then the other two techs use that same door knob. If either of those techs scrapes a hand afterward, before they can wash, they may have happen to them what happened to MR.

Preach hygine at your shop and demand that every cut gets treated right away. Take a look at your first aid box and make sure you have what you need to treat cuts effectively and immediately.