Agree that I also see this constantly in practice .... Some with huge festering boils .... Just out of the blue. It’s always antibiotics to the rescue.
Always wondered how so many could be coming into contact with spider bites all the time.
Funny, but if you look at the surgical literature on this, over 95% of abscesses resolve with simple I&D without antibiotics. I don’t know ANYONE who does this ANYWHERE, but the studies are about as solid as any I’ve ever seen.
I had long talks with the Army’s environmental health about spiders - I had only lived in Maryland for 6 years at the time - and was told, basically, no effing way. Sure, there are bag spiders, and wolf spiders, and tarantulas here, garden spiders and jumping spiders and so on, but NONE of them carries the strains of MRSA. Curiously though, bed bugs are known to carry it (google that sometime, it’s mind-blowing).
CA-MRSA is a product of over-prescribing antibiotics in general, and behaviours and practices in the the aforementioned “high-risk group” with THEIR subsequent antibiotic use.
No spider bites.