[pct-l] Health & Science - Drug-resistant skin infection spreading

[dsaufley at sprynet.com]

Tortoise,

Thanks for sharing this article.  Every year we see cases, believed to be spider bites, amongst the hikers.  This certainly makes me wonder if they weren't skin infections, not bites.  

L-Rod

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>From: Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net>
>Sent: Aug 17, 2006 6:09 PM
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>Interesting article found thru Digg.com
>
>seems that what many including some doctors think was a spider bite was 
>actually a drug-resistant bacterial skin infection.
>
>see:
>http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/healthscience/homepage/article_1244906.php
>
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