It's scary, I mean, you just can't describe it really," said Bill Reeves. 

Two years ago, 46-year-old Bill Reeves, who worked at a poultry processing plant in Batesville, Arkansas, developed a lump under his right eye. 

"It went from about the size of a mosquito bite to about the size of a grapefruit," he said. 

CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric reports doctors tried several drugs that usually work on this potentially deadly infection: methicillin resistant staph or MRSA - before one saved his life 


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"there are 4x as many antibiotics in our animals than humans"
  

caroline smith dewaal 
center for sceince in the public interest
food safety director