A recent government study involving 5,500 Americans finds an additional benefit in drinking hot coffee or tea: warding off methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA.
The study was published in the Annals of Family Medicine and accordingly, the popular caffeinated beverages make drinkers less likely to have methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA in their nostrils. Hot tea and coffee have antimicrobial properties that play a big role here, offering the protection that non-drinkers don't have as they are found to be about twice more likely to be carrying MRSA in their noses.
Approximately 2.5 million people are nasal carriers of MRSA and in general about one percent of the United States population carry the microorganism in their nose or skin. Not all carriers suffer from MRSA caused sicknesses though.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA is a bacterium identified to be responsible for various difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It is also known as multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA). Technically, MRSA refers to an strain of Staphylococcus aureus that has developed resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics such as penicillin and the cephalosporins.
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