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	Staph Clipping Texas Football Players

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12-24-2007 1:11 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4d49f73a-07f3-4056-9374-a5c779bfe1e4/570937ED-4B14-4ABE-8538-3182389A09EC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alxhrJDn.cdc&refer=exclusive" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alxhrJDn.cdc&refer=exclusive" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bloomberg.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alxhrJDn.cdc&refer=exclusive"><SPAN class="news_story_title">Texas Football Succumbs to Virulent Staph Infection From Turf </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alxhrJDn.cdc&refer=exclusive">      Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Missy Baker recalls the moment when
she realized that her football-playing son, Boone, didn't just
have the flu.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alxhrJDn.cdc&refer=exclusive"> ``He told me he was paralyzed,'' Baker said. ``I said, `What
do you mean? I just saw you walk to the bathroom two hours ago.'
And he said, `Mom, I can't move my arms or legs.'''</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alxhrJDn.cdc&refer=exclusive"><P> Sixteen-year-old Boone, a wide receiver for Texas's Austin
High School, was suffering from a recurrence of methicillin-
resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, which his doctor said
he got through an abrasion from playing on artificial turf, Baker
said.    
        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=alxhrJDn.cdc&refer=exclusive"><P> Texas has artificial turf at 18 percent of its high school
football stadiums, according to Web site Texasbob.com. It also
has an MRSA infection rate among players that is 16 times higher
than the estimated national average, according to three studies
by the Texas Department of State Health Services.    
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