Snee, a second-round draft pick in 2004 out of Boston College, played his entire career with the Giants before announcing his retirement a day before the team commenced its 2014 training camp. MRSA is often first noticeable because of skin rashes or sores or spider-bite-like bumps. As such the Giants scrubbed and disinfected their locker rooms, training rooms and meeting rooms this week after Fells’ infection came to light.
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“It was very unfortunate with Daniel”, Tom Coughlin said on Monday.
Giants cornerback Prince Amukamara said he acquired a MRSA infection when he was a freshman at the University of Nebraska.
“So they had to drill it and empty it all out and wrap it like a huge bandage”, Amukamara said.
As it relates to Cruz, Coughlin says there is no new timetable, but he will not yet rule him out for Sunday’s game against the 49ers. “So I remember using a sweaty one not knowing any better, and I started getting itchy and it started getting aggravated and I got sick”.
“With Daniel, it was a different story, there was no surface injury that anybody knows of”, the coach said. “My body felt like paralyzed”.
The Giants are following the protocol established by the National Football League and NFLPA in consultation with the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network.
Amukamara said players were being more diligent about wearing shoes in the shower, showering before entering cold and hot tubs, and washing themselves with antibacterial soap and wipes. Three players – guard Carl Nicks, kicker Lawrence Tynes and cornerback Johnthan Banks – were diagnosed with MRSA that season. But the players were all obviously very supportive of Daniel.
Fells had appeared in about a quarter of the Giants’ offensive snaps this year, catching six passes for 60 yards.
“They said something about Ebola [spreading] a long time ago, and I try not to worry about that”, Beckham said when asked how concerned the players are about MRSA. Coughlin said the expectation is Fells – who was placed on season-ending injured reserve – will be discharged from the hospital Thursday.
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“We had (senior vice president of medical services) Ronnie Barnes, we had team doctors, we had the person in charge of our facility in here to talk about the way the cleaning process is normally underway, and what we have done in addition to that, as well”, Coughlin said. They are very, very thorough in what they’ve done in terms of cleaning.
