are you concerned with this SUPER BUG MRSA IS BRUTALLY KILLING PEOPLE AND IS RESISTANT TO ANTI BIOTICS?

Sure. It's been a cause for concern for like ten years, it's just that now the media has latched onto it as the latest boogeyman. It's not new. But it is a scare tactic.

MRSA is pretty bad stuff, but it's not like you're going to die if you get it. It's not resistant to all antibiotics, just the B-lactam group. You can still treat it with vancomycin. Now, we're starting to see some strains that are vancomycin resistant as well, which means we have to go to other antimicrobials. But there are more antibiotic classes to be used that MRSA isn't resistant to, plus there's been some research done lately in which some scientists have disabled the antimicrobial resistance. It's a few years off, yet, but we may be able to wipe it out. Which is very cool stuff.

Another important distinction is that not all Staph is Staph aureus, and not all Staph aureus is MRSA (methicillin resistant Staph aureus.) So, just because you have a Staph infection, that doesn't mean you have a pathogenic MRSA.

It has been around for years. The media just started in on it. That is all that is going on. MRSA is all around. It is a VERY rare case where it actually kills someone who is healthy to begin with.

Not really, since MRSA has been around for ages and since it's now in schools, it NOW gets media attention.

Although it kind of freaks me out at times since I live really close where the whole incident happened. :/

I rarely become concerned with anything the media drums up. They are always look for something that's newsworthy, and when there isn't much going on, they find something old news, re-vamp it, and throw it out there again in hopes of scaring the crap out of everyone. It works, see? This isn't new information. They have been talking about this SuperBug for ages now. They just find new ways of wording it and reintroducing to people to freak you out all over again.

Just like the bird flu. Weren't we all supposed to die from that like 2 years ago?

Give it time, it'll be back in the news again.

there are A LOT more infections out there that are worse such as VRE and VRSA. Plus I know several people that are carriers with it already.

woah. way to get the word out there, but at the samw time, if it was really that serious, we wold have heard of it before. im not too worried