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This is from webmd:

Understanding MRSA Symptoms
What are the symptoms?
The symptoms of MRSA infection depend on where you've been infected.

MRSA most often appears as a skin infection, like a boil or abscess. It also might infect a surgical wound. In either case, the area would look:

Swollen
Red
Painful
Pus filled
Many people who actually have staph skin infections often mistake it for a spider bite.

If staph infects the lungs and causes pneumonia, you might have:

Shortness of breath
Fever
Chills
MRSA can cause many other symptoms since it can infect the urinary tract or the bloodstream.

Very rarely, staph can result in necrotizing fasciitis, or "flesh-eating" bacterial infections. These are serious skin infections that spread very quickly. While frightening, necrotizing fasciitis caused by staph is rare. There have only been a handful of reported cases.

Call your doctor if:
In most cases, MRSA is easily treated. But since MRSA infection can be serious or -- rarely -- fatal, don't ignore signs of infection. See your health care provider.

If you are already being treated for an infection, watch for signs that your medicine isn't working. If you are taking an antibiotic, call your doctor if

The infection is no better after three or four days
The infection keeps getting worse
You develop a fever, or your fever gets worse
People who are ill or have a compromised immune system have a higher risk of getting MRSA. If you have a condition that lowers your immunity, call your doctor right away if you think that you might have an in

Last fall, it was brought to my attention about an infection that posed a threat and was being referred to as "mat herpes" in respect to the sport of wrestling prevelant in high school kids. (I wonder if there's a connection?)

Oh, my gosh . . .

Our history teacher's been out so he got a sub . . . we all sit around a table every day to discuss the reading, and the teacher's always at the head. Well, we couldn't figure out what was wrong with his hands - his knuckles and skin were all red, swollen, and puffy - it looked like someone had ripped his flesh apart and heaped it back together again.

Oh boy . . .