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So you can't blame the hospital for contaminating the cut. He most likely got the MRSA along with the injury. All it takes is one spore, and it is a spore forming bacillus. It's now in the air and soil outside hospitals.
I've seen few people die from it if they've gotten quick treatment and appropriate follow up, even when infection has gone into the bone.
Treatment is difficult, however, and recovery is extremely slow.
Likely it would have eventually developed, but overuse of antibiotics in a population that didn't understand how antibiotics were to be taken caused it to evolve into a resistant form in record time.
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