The Potential for Waterborne Spread of MRSA
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By Kelly A. Reynolds, MSPH, PhD , Associate Professor at the University of Arizona College of Public Health
The emergence and increased prevalence of the ‘superbug’ bacterium known as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), has raised questions as to the routes of transmission related to disease. Reports of MRSA infections in the general population and evidence of the bacteria surviving in wastewater, tap water and drinking water biofilms creates alarm in the public and warrants a discussion of whether or not MRSA infections occur from tapwater exposures.
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I thought most of this was spread through hospital infections. This would be significant in PA because about 50 % of private wells have a bacterial problem.
Learn More – Cases Studies in PA – http://www.water-research.net/blackwaterprivatewells.htm
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