MRSA Infects 7 Students at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan
Seven students at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) in Michigan have been diagnosed with the superbug known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) since the school year began. After the first four cases of the potentially lethal staph infection were announced by school officials on October 26, 2007, three additional students were diagnosed with MRSA.
Of the [...]
Tulsa Public Schools Will Require Teachers to Report Suspected Staph Infections
Following the diagnosis of antibiotic-resistant staph infections in several local students and teachers, the Tulsa Public School District will now require teachers and staff to notify health services of all children with suspicious looking rashes or wounds. Confirmed cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have been diagnosed in a teacher at Edison High School, [...]
MRSA Outbreak at West Virginia State University was Exaggerated
Four confirmed cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were diagnosed among West Virginia State University in October 2007, not nine as originally announced. The inflated figures were due to misreporting by students and lack of adequate medical confirmation. Some of the students had staph infections that, unlike MRSA, could be easily treated with [...]
Staph Superbug Outbreak in Richmond, Missouri Closes Elementary School
A Richmond, Missouri school is closed for disinfection after the diagnosis of drug-resistant staph in at least seven children. The children, all students at Sunrise Elementary School, are infected with the virulent form of staph known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. An eighth student and a teacher are believed to have the [...]
School in Cape Cod, Massachusetts Did Not Notify Parents, Public of MRSA Infection
School officials at the Morse Pond School in Falmouth, Massachusetts first learned one of their students was infected with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection in mid-September, but did not notify students or members of the Falmouth community. Falmouth Superintendent Dennis Richards told the Cape Cod Times he did not disclose the potentially lethal methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus [...]
Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas Quarantines ICU Due to Superbug Outbreak
An antibiotic-resistant microbe known as acinetobacter has infected six patients at St. Joseph’s Mercy Health Center in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Four of those infected are patients in the Intensive Care Unit.
Doctors observed an “unusual cluster” of acinetobacter infections in the ICU, and instituted a quarantine at 9:30 p.m. on November 1, 2007, Fox News [...]
Baltimore Has Highest Rate of Staph Superbug Infections in the Nation
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, gained national attention last month when four American children died from complications related to the virulent superbug. In a study published in the October 17, 2007 Journal of the American Medical Association, The Centers for Disease Control reported that United States deaths attributed to the MRSA bacterium exceeded [...]
Georgia’s Columbia County Has At Least 11 Students with Confirmed MRSA Infections
Nine schools in Columbia County, Georgia have reported a total of 11 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. MRSA is the virulent staph bacterium that made headlines in October when it caused the deaths of children in New York, Mississippi, New Hampshire, and Virginia.
The Columbia County Schools Superintendent has no plans to close any [...]