Participation in school athletics.

PositionHEALTH BEAT - Infection transmission - Brief article

Participation in school athletics should start with a program for personal hygiene to help avoid staph infections and the more severe methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria. Football players and wrestlers should be particularly wary, cautions the Texas Department of State Health Services. The staph infection rate among football players...

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