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State Investigates Men’s Staph Infections

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From Times Wire Reports

The state Department of Public Health is investigating how five men in Boston were infected with a drug-resistant staph infection. Doctors at Fenway Community Health Center last fall started seeing patients with pneumonia, sinus infections and skin conditions caused by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria usually caught only in hospitals by patients already sick.

All five men treated for the infection are HIV-positive, but medical investigators don’t know whether that was a factor.

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