Ep 15 MRSA: Make Resistance Susceptible Again

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

We've gotten pretty graphic on this podcast before, but this episode takes it to a whole new level. The omnipresent Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that wears many faces. Often that face is harmless, but Staph has the power to invade and infect nearly every organ of the body, leaving destruction (and a lot of pus) in its wake. While Staphylococcus aureus has been wreaking havoc on humans since well before the discovery of antibiotics, Methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) has risen to terrifying prominence as resistance becomes the new norm. If any disease could make you run out (or stay in) and wash your hands, it’s this one. As always, you can find all of our sources at thispodcastwillkillyou.com/episodes.

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:06.4	In the aftermath of a shocking crime, people always ask why?
0:10.4	Why would someone do something like that?
0:12.3	I'm Candace DeLong, host of the podcast Killer Psychie, where every week I explain the thoughts,
0:18.0	motivations, and behaviors of the most violent figures in history.
0:21.9	Listen to Killer Psychie on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:32.6	Warning.
0:33.6	For the squeamish, this is about to get graphic.
0:38.6	Inside Tony Loves Fingers, they found pockets of pus the size of nickels.
0:44.1	There was one in the center of his hand.
0:46.4	It was the size of a golf ball.
0:49.0	Orthopedic surgeons probed Tony's hips and shoulders with a long, wide-bore needle,
0:54.4	looking for infection trapped behind the joint's cartilaginous sheets.
0:59.6	His left knee, the one he couldn't bend, was rigid and swollen.
1:04.0	When they slid the needle in, pus pushed out under pressure, forcing back the base of
1:09.6	the syringe.
1:11.2	They got out enough to fill a baseball.
1:14.8	One of the orthopedic surgeons sliced into Tony's left thigh and eased the part the muscles.
1:20.8	There was pus underneath them, creamy and dull.
1:24.6	There was too much to evacuate through the small incision they had cut so they kept cutting,
1:29.8	looking for the end of the pocket.
1:32.2	They laid his thigh open from his knee almost to his hip joint.
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