Case Study
On July 3 1970, there was a man named Charles w. He was a white 17 year old. That wrestled for Langley high school. He had a good family. His mother was a registered nurse and he had two brothers. His first brother was Aaron he was 14 and in eighth grade and his second brother’s name was Cody an eight year old that was in 4th grade. Wrestling and them three people were the only things Charles had after his father passed away four years ago. His father was a troubled man and hung himself from the anger that built up from over time. Charles would have wrestling practice every day and after every practice the team would take a shower, but Charles didn’t take a shower after practice because he didn’t like to do that in front of other guys. So after practice he would go home and take a shower. Overtime after every day he would do this instead of taking a shower with the team. One day he came home from practice and was hopping in the shower and noticed a bump and he had no idea what it was so he left it alone. Through the next week he was wrestling and wrestling getting ready for play offs and he has touched everybody with this bump. Through the next couple days everybody on the team started to see rashes and boils on their skin and the whole team stopped wrestling and tried to cure whatever this is.
The next day Charles contacted a very very high fever and started to get sick. Then he started to devolved red bumps and boils on his skin. Charles mother said that he needed to go to the hospital because this isn’t normal for a child to have these types of symptoms. So she took him to the hospital and the doctor checked him out and said I’ll be right back and he came back and said he had all the signs of MRSA. Mrsa is a bacterial disease that causes infections in your skin.
The doctor gave him a couple doses of penicillin and was sent home. In the 70’s people didn’t know very much about MRSA and they just shot him up with penicillin and didn’t work on MRSA most of the time. So Charles went home and his red bumps started to turn into cuts in his body. Then they started to turn into holes in his body and they got infected from not keeping them clean. So the wholes started to develop maggots.
Charles mom went back to the hospital and said look at my son this stuff is not working so the doctor investigated him and kept him in the hospital over night giving him different medicines like methicillin and penicillin. Then Charles eventually died in his hospital bed from a bad infection all through his body. Charles lost his life from not being clean and cleaning his skin after wrestling matches.
Important facts about MRSA:
1. MRSA is a bacterial skin infectious disease
2. MRSA is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans
3. MRSA is transmitted mostly because of people not staying clean and touching another person with dirty skin
4. The real name for MRSA is Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
5. MRSA was discovered in 1961
6. Some of the first symptoms are small red bumps, boils, open wounds, and a high fever.
7. within 24-28 hours the symptoms start to happen
8. Theres no vaccine for MRSA yet
9.The fatality rate is about 50% to 90%
10. About 19,000 people die from MRSA each year
The CDC has this disease under control for the most part but there changing situations regarding wrestlers and football players. The who I trying to make nursing homes and dialysis centers cleaning and more efficient.
Here are some examples of MRSA
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| This is a map of were MRSA occurs the most in the united states. |
MLA Citations
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