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MRSA Staph Infection
- Who Is At Risk?
Traditionally, most MRSA staph infection victims have been elderly, or have had weakened immune systems. But our children are at risk from MRSA staph once exposed. Although hospitals and nursing homes are still the riskiest places for MRSA, they are far from the only environments where people are at risk. MRSA infections contracted outside of a medical facility is known as CA-MRSA, or community associated MRSA. Currently, about one in eight cases of MRSA fall into this category, but the numbers are rising.
Environments where people come into close physical contact with each other are the riskiest places for contracting MRSA staph infections. The number of MRSA cases in California prisons has risen sharply in the past few years.
But any place where physical contact with other people, or with surfaces or materials that an infected person has touched, such as in athletic competitions, locker rooms, playgrounds, etc., requires extra precautions. The CDC has already identified clusters of MRSA in such places.
In addition to schools, sports, locker rooms, etc., another area to be concerned about when it comes to children and MRSA is the rising popularity of tattoos and body piercing. In the past decade or so the rise in popularity of tattoos and body piercing in America has been nothing less than astonishing. Once only seen on sailors, soldiers, and ex-convicts, they’re now popular in all segments of society, including teenagers, who see their favorite athletes and music artists with them, and their own friends getting them, and want to emulate them. The odds are good that if you have a teenager, he or she knows several friends with a tattoo or a body piercing, and may be considering getting tattooed or pierced. Hopefully, they’ll come to you for permission. But they may not, and it’s not very hard for a teenager who wants a tattoo or piercing to get one, no matter what the law says. While most states require a person to be 18 or older to get tattooed or pierced, not all do. And even in the states where tattooing or piercing children is illegal, there are still plenty of practitioners willing to skirt the law. In June 2006, the Centers for Disease Control reported a cluster of 44 MRSA staph infections in people who had been tattooed in 2004-2005 in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Vermont. These infections were traced back to 13 different illegal tattoo artists.
Unlicensed tattoo artists often ply their illegal trade at what are known as “tattoo parties.”
A tattoo party involves several people who want to get tattooed, but are either trying to save money or are underage, inviting a tattoo artist to a home where they tattoo several people at the same time. The tattoo artist may be licensed or unlicensed, but tattoo parties are illegal in virtually every state, since a licensed tattoo artist is only licensed to give tattoos in their place of business. Needless to say, tattoo parties are very unsanitary and the risk of infections and other health hazards is extremely high. Body piercing, just like tattooing, can also lead to an MRSA staph infection.
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