CA-MRSA causes boils and lesions that can be healed 77 percent of the time by lancing and draining. About 6 percent of cases, however, are serious or fatal. The bacteria can eat flesh, causing ...

Is that red bump a spider bite or could it be a staph infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcal aureus (MRSA)? MRSA, a newer type of staph infection, has been present in Iowa since at ...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — A Brevard County mother said her son contracted MRSA from his high school football gear. The teenager attends Merritt Island High School. MRSA is a bacterium that causes an ...

Mar. 23 -- THURSDAY, Jan. 3 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first rapid test to detect the widely publicized drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA ...