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Staph infections are known to be hearty bacteria infections, often resistant to antibiotics and other drugs that are used to treat them. But there is a strain that has cropped up in San Francisco in recent years that defies all efforts to eradicate it. Furthermore, it has spread to different population groups, and is a threat that is slowly becoming more intense and dangerous.

This rogue variation of Staph infection first surfaced seven years ago. It was discovered in a walk in clinic for skin infections, and at the current time it is resistant to at least six major antibiotics. It is a very aggressive and scary bug, one that just keeps slowly getting worse and worse. The strain, called USA300 has spread among the Gay population in San Francisco, and now is also been reported in Los Angeles, Boston, and New York City. It has gone from a single case at a walk in clinic in 2001, to fast becoming a dominant form of the infection across much of the United States.

“This infection has just raced into town, and taken over, and it has shoved out other forms of the bacteria infection,” stated Dr Chip Saunders. Dr. Saunders is on the staff of San Francisco General Hospital, where the Staph virus was first spotted at a hospital clinic seven years ago.
The USA300 virus used to only be prevalent among the Gay population, and inmates, drug injection users, and the homeless in San Francisco.

Now, the bacterial infection has struck down doctors, children, athletes, executives, even suburban mothers and families. It has reared its ugly presence in newborn nurseries, tattoo parlors; even area schools have been affected. Those afflicted with the HIV virus seem particularly at risk, but it no longer only targets the Gay population, it affects both straight and Gay, and even those with no history of health problems. The USA300 version of Staph has been reported in at least fourteen states, with new cases reported all the time.