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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The New York Giants have taken a crash course on MRSA that among the team’s assuring tight ends could possibly lose his foot to the infection that was barbarous.
Team physicians, trainer Ronnie Barnes, the head of the team’s facilities along with the players union spoke to the team on Wednesday after tight end Daniel Fells was hospitalized with all the antibiotic-resistant bacteria that kills thousands a year.
NFL.com reports Fells has had five surgeries, and are anticipating to perform more, as doctors attempt to stave off further illness.
Doctors haven’t found how Fells contracted MRSA, Coughlin said.
CBSSports.com’s Jared Dubin reports this isn’t the first MRSA outbreak in the NFL. The latest outbreak came back in 2013, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had three players guard Carl Nicks kicker Lawrence Tynes and cornerback Jonathan Banks.
About one in three people carry staph infections in their nose, but about two in 100 people carry MRSA forms.
Amukamara considers he got MRSA when he picked a pimple on his wrist and then had contact with a sweaty strap a teammate used while weightlifting.
“It’s like a very extraordinary case of the flu,” Amukamara said of the MRSA effects.
Despite all of the precautions, receiver Odell Beckham Jr. said MRSA occasionally cannot be avoided.