Huge, painful boils and abscesses that must be cut open and drained before they can heal: Those are the scary symptoms of a major outbreak of a drug-resistant microbe among hundreds of jail inmates and gay men in the United States. A recent surge in cases has epidemiologists scrambling to understand what's going on—and wondering whether a well-known pathogen is on the verge of becoming a much bigger problem.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Martin Enserink (2003) studied this question.