After 15-year old Zeke Wheeler attempted to pierce his lower lip with needle from a home first-aid kit, the teenager ended up with a deadly staph infection.
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Doctors say every part of the boy’s body has been affected. Wheeler has had six blood transfusions, and three knee and two hip surgeries. He is still facing heart surgery and a long course of antibiotics.
For years, the drug-resistant MRSA infections were confined to hospital environments where the strains were difficult to kill because of antibiotic use. But the bacteria have become more prevalent outside those settings, and can be spread in skin-to-skin contact.
According to a study by the CDC, 85 percent of the most serious MRSA infections have involved people who were infected while in a health care environment. Only 15 percent of those life-threatening cases of MRSA happened in community contact.
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