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Health Tip - Addressing the Staph Scare
By Mike Alexander Sr.

Mike is involved with several organizations including the National Association of Health Underwriters, Independent Insurance Agents Association, East End Chamber of Commerce, Better Business Bureau and the National Association of Small Business Owners, to name a few. Mike is a licensed Risk Manager and highly regarded in the insurance industry.

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As an insurance executive one of my biggest goals is to keep people healthy. That's great for the client, my companies, and for the economy in general. With that, I'm continuously looking for quality information that you can use in order to stay healthy.

Regular readers of the eDoc "Health Tips" may remember a previously published article on Methicillin Resistance Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) entitled "Revenge of the Microbes". With the recent media blitz concerning MRSA and the infections that it can cause, I thought it was time to revisit this subject.

MRSA emerged many years ago in hospitals where a strain of Staph underwent a genetic mutation that allowed it to fend off the effects of many antibiotics. MRSA flourished in hospitals and health care facilities where it caused serious infections in bones, joints, the bloodstream and surgical wounds. Up until recently, MRSA primarily affected those who were seriously illin a hospital or had diseases that weakened their immune systems. Over the past several years, however, MRSA infections in people not considered high-risk have increased. These infections are known as ....Click here to sign up to eDocAmerica and read more of this article.