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Drug-resistant MRSA developing into medical crisis

When scientists sounded an alarm last week about the evolving presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- MRSA -- they shed new light on an old problem about a bug that has been evading destruction since the dawn of the antibiotic era.

Their conclusion: MRSA is here to stay. It is an organism that can cause mild skin infections, but is capable of invading the bloodstream and...

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