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MRSA is a serious infection resistant to many antibiotics ... Schwarz returned to the hospital with red swollen skin. Steve Schwarz’s case was revealed late last year after his daughter ...

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he returned to the hospital with red swollen skin. Doctors diagnosed him with MRSA, or methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, a serious bacterial infection resistant to many antibiotics that ...