News tagged with 'Bacterial Infections'

The dramatic story of a Brazilian model is bringing home the susceptibility even the young have to bacterial infections.  In this case, Mariana Bridi da Costa, 20, had an undiagnosed urinary tract infection which became a blood infection. Then her body began shutting down.

A new government report found more children have been getting seriously ill from the flu because they also had a staph infection, most commonly (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) MRSA.

MRSA has taken the life of an otherwise healthy 18-year old football player in Orlando. Warning letters are going out to parents not to panic. MRSA frequently responds to other stronger antibiotics, just not methicillin.