Not very scary at all, actually.  It sounds playful and fun.  For shame, NYTimes, this will hardly get people running around in a panic.

Pretty low.  If you bring MRSA home and get it on your pet, the pet can act as a petri dish and breed it, and then give it back to you.  However, even if you did this, there’s only a 2% chance you would actually get infected.

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