And teaclowntown, I would not be so worried about MRSA. Every time hospitals discharge an isolation patient with MRSA, the room is decontaminated. In essence, we all have MRSA since the bug is opportunistic and I think most hospital docs will tell you the same thing. Most hospitals require a nasal swab for MRSA during admission as a standard operating procedure since if you acquire MRSA in the hospital, insurance is less likely to cover for it. Therefore, if the hospital proves you had it before you came in, their butts are covered. In addition, if you've ever had a history of MRSA, you're put on isolation precautions anyway regardless of whether or not you actively have it. This makes the situation look much worse than it really is. In this day and age, unless I had an open wound in the hospital, I would be much more worried about C. diff than MRSA...it is highly contagious and hard to clean. You can kill MRSA simply by using a germicidal alcohol wipe. The only way to kill C. diff is high heat and bleach wipes. And C. diff can live on surfaces for weeks and even months.
I think pretty much everyone has MRSA on them at one time or another. (Kind of like brown recluse spiders - everyone has them in their house whether they know it or not). We have 6 people in the family that have had it at one time or another - some more than once. 5 of them needed hospitalization, and one got surgery to remove the lesion, and one was in hospital for about 6 weeks! Yucky stuff!!
And that pink has kind of grown on me over the decades, so would hate to see it go. Kind of like the Blue Whale - it has become an icon.