"Infantigo" is everywhere, Ebbie. I heard it in my residency in Philadelphia and I hear it in Hawaii. It's folk etymology...a common linguistic pattern: changing an unfamiliar word into something that seems to make more sense.

Once again, Donuel, I think you've hit the nail on the head. The agribusiness conglomerate is keeping very quiet about this. Most of the problem with antibiotic resistance that I deal with every day as a physician does not come from all my fellow docs prescribing too many antibiotics (though that certainly is a problem, and one that's slowly improving), but from the tons of antibiotics that are dumped into the food supply to "improve" the growth of farmed animals. Makes me glad I'm a vegetarian.

Aloha,
Mark