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Thread #82946   Message #1525192
Posted By: JohnInKansas
21-Jul-05 - 04:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Help! Spiders Ripped My Flesh!
Subject: RE: BS: Help! Spiders Ripped My Flesh!
A supplemental possibility:

A local infectious disease specialist has been retitled "Chief of Staph," having admitted to being "attacked" by a common staph infection.

In medical terms, the bug is community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
In simple terms, it's a highly contagious, aggressive bug that causes painful skin infections, and it's often mistaken (even by doctors) for a spider bite.

He's refering to the stuff as Frankenstaph. First symptom is it feels like something bit you. Later - often - theres a "pimple" that looks like a bite. It's resistant to standard antibiotics, but usually doesn't require treatment. It is highly contagious, usually by skin-to-skin contact with infected persons, so if you're the "only one that got bit" it probably wasn't this stuff.

Just one more look-alike possibility to be considered when you get the creepy crawlies.

John