Hospital are not even mentioning; Methicilllin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection may be one of the most frightening illnesses you've never heard of. Unlike more galvanizing diseases such as smallpox and bird flu, MRSA infection has quietly been killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people, including children, without grabbing a single headline. Note: These numbers are only the ones that have been reported