The MRSA Virus

Methicillin- Resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, also known as the “Super Bug,” is a very deadly, and hard to cure staph infection caused by the Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacterium. MRSA is a staph bacterium that is harmless unless it gets into our bodies or into open wounds. The MRSA bacterium was discovered in 1961 by a few British Scientists. The infection at first, was not very harmful since it was easily treated, but as time has passed, the bacterium has become resistant to many antibiotics such as methicillin, amoxicillin, penicillin, oxacillin, and many more. The tough aspect of curing this infection, is that it keeps on adapting, so it becomes resistant to different antibiotics frequently. MRSA is spread by contact, so by touching another person or object who has the bacterium on them, will cause you to posses the bacterium. Just by making contact with the bacterium alone will not give you the infection, but if it gets inside of your body or into an open wound, then you will be infected with it. MRSA is most common in hospitals, prisons, and nursing homes since those are places where people live in tight communities and have either open wounds or weak immune systems. …show more content…
HA-MRSA is most common in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. The reason why MRSA is common in healthcare facilities is because healthcare providers work with so many patients who unknowingly have the staph bacterium, and then the healthcare provider does not properly wash their hands in between patients. MRSA is common in prisons because they are very crowded with very bad hygiene. MRSA is commonly found with livestock, since there is a new strain of MRSA, known as CC398, which is solely associated with livestock that intensively reproduce at an unnatural