A survivor's story

摘要

Joseph Paz still wakes every morning with an ache in his knee from a brush with drug-resistant bacteria that almost killed him. It started with a broken toenail. The infection that seeped into his body after a toe injury on the basketball court soon seized the muscle in his leg with pain that his Advil couldn't touch. Doctors diagnosed methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a notoriously vicious infection better known as MRSA. By then, it had spread to his heart.