MRSA Short Story

Words: 603
Pages: 3

Maryn McKenna has written this splendid piece to elaborate and clearly explain MRSA. MRSA is ‘Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus’ a bacteria resistant to the methicillin dosage of medicine. The strangest and equally threatening fact about MRSA is that it is contagious and transfers from one person another by personal contact or even through the use of same things. Jay Sorenson, in the story of the superbug, suffers from MRSA infection. The most evident point that the writer tries to explain and elicit in this story is how such a strong, resistant and contagious infection can spread from one person to the other through a simple or rather honest mistake. Jay received MRSA as a result of a simple mistake. The most dangerous trait of this