10-04-2013, 04:57 PM
Nearly every visitor we've had from the mainland in the last 6 years has, sadly, gotten a staph infection. Not necessarily from the warm pond, just from any cut or abrasion. We help them to disinfect it immediately and they do, but invariably it leads to staph, and to the clinic, and to a round of antibiotics. I've never had it, but as I said, almost all our visitors get it. Seems to have something to do with the flora and fauna of a totally new environment and in a climate that is conducive to tropical-type infections.