Michael Otto and his colleagues at the federal Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton have shown that KRSA secretes a protein that pokes holes in one of the body’s main disease killing cells, destroying them. Also, individual MRSA bacteria know when their fellow super bugs are present in enough numbers to deliver maximum damage to the body’s immune cells and all strike at once thus winning the war. This is what gives CA MRSA its reputation for being flesh eating. The bacteria doesn’t even start making the PSM proteins that attack until it knows there are enough members of the CA MRSA army to win the war. This tells us that our super bug is what it is because it is super smart. Staph infections were the first to become immune to penicillin in the 1950’s, and then they were the first to become immune to the second generation antibiotic, methicillin.
Maybe a few of those saying we shouldn’t be overly afraid should look at this breaking news closely.
It is down right terrifying.