I'm about to vomit.

This posting is not for the weak of heart.

I had a lunch date today that was canceled, so I had nothing better to do than to sit around and watch YouTube videos.

At first I was YouTubing "Brown Recluse spider bites"... I suggest everyone watch some of those videos. I hope it never happens to anyone I know. So gross.

Then I happened on some videos of people cleaning out their MRSA pustules. Ugh... I'm like jell-o right now. I'm having a hard time typing.

MRSA (according to Wikipedia): Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, often pronounced "mersa") is a bacterium responsible for difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It may also be referred to as multiple-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA). MRSA is by definition a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to a large group of antibiotics called the beta-lactams, which include the penicillins and the cephalosporins.

They go on to say:

MRSA/Multidrug Resistant Staphylococcus aureus was discovered in 1961 in the United Kingdom. It is now found worldwide. MRSA is often referred to in the press as a "superbug."

In the past decade or so the number of MRSA infections in the United States has increased significantly. A 2007 report in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), estimated that the number of MRSA infections treated in hospitals doubled nationwide, from approximately 127,000 in 1999 to 278,000 in 2005, while at the same time deaths increased from 11,000 to more than 17,000.^[2] Another study led by the CDC and published in the October 17, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that MRSA would have been responsible for 94,360 serious infections and associated with 18,650 hospital stay-related deaths in the United States in 2005.^[3][4] These figures suggest that MRSA infections are responsible for more deaths in the U.S. each year than AIDS.^[5]

Here is a girl draining her MRSA.



And, if you're a Project Runway fan, you'll remember that Jack (season 3?) had to leave the show because of his MRSA infection. It's really dangerous! Jack is also HIV+ and didn't want the MRSA to cause other major problems, so he left the reality series.