The Skinny on Staph in the US

Written by: Jessica Lysne

Edited by: Lauren Heinzinger

This piece was written in collaboration with the 2025 ComSciCon-MI Write-A-Thon.

“I’m working in a staph lab,” I tell a friend from college when we see each other for the first time in a while.

“Ugh! Staph! I hate staph!” She says with a full-body shudder. As a fully licensed pharmacist these days, she works in the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital on our old university campus. She adds, after the shudder, “Oh, but I’m glad you like it!”

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