"The doctor took one look at her and he was concerned, because the bite was behind the knee and on a joint, and an infection may have ... tests found her to have MRSA, a rare, resistant strain ...

"He could hardly walk when he came in. I don’t know if it was a spider or what," Rangers’ manager Bruce Bochy said. "Some kind of venom got in there. Not sure if it was a spider or what.

Patrick Corbin made his second start for the Rangers and was great, but almost didn’t make the start because of a potential spider bite. MLB.com reporter Kennedi Landry spoke to Corbin and Bruce ...

Human bites tend to have a higher complication and infection rate than animal bites, with approximately 10–15% of human bites becoming infected. [9] Infection usually emerges 1–2 days after ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(2):215-226. As with most mammalian bites, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (augmentin) is a reasonable empiric antibiotic in an ...

In 2010, several Tucson firefighters got sick and died of MRSA infections within days. Reynolds’ research team investigated the source, looked everywhere, and finally found MRSA in the soft ...

FORMER Super League star John Bateman has revealed that he has been hospitalised for four days courtesy of a spider bite in Australia. Bateman, who made the move to the North Queensland Cowboys ...

A seemingly harmless mosquito bite took a frightening turn for one Australian ... Tests revealed that she had contracted MRSA, a rare and resistant strain of the staph infection. “It had spread all ...