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From EurekAlert! - Breaking News:

Researchers at the University of Chicago describe three cases of rapidly progressive and ultimately fatal Staphylococcus aureus infections in small children. The infection caused severe sepsis, rapid clinical deterioration and bleeding into the adrenal glands, a complication usually associated with fulminant bacterial meningitis. The disease progressed so rapidly that antibiotics had no effect. Such cases highlight a disturbing convergence of drug-resistant and virulent strains of Staph. Read more from this post.