Students Diagnosed With MRSA at Over 20 Illinois Schools

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Last updated on November 30, 2007.
Schools in the Chicago area and throughout the state of Illinois have reported cases of drug-resistant staph infections this month. Four American children died from the superbug methicilllin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in October 2007, prompting heightened awareness of [...]

Toddler Hospitalized with Severe Staph Infection in Fort Worth, Texas

A three-year-old Texas boy has spent the last 10 days at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Forth Worth fighting a virulent strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The Associated Press reports that the MRSA infection has infiltrated young Dalton Overton’s bloodstream and is now invading his bones and head. He suffers from eczema, [...]

Disinfecting Schools May Not Curb the Spread of MRSA

Schools across the country have taken steps to disinfect common areas after learning of local staph cases, but sanitizing academic facilities is not likely to help prevent outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant staph, according to Virginia’s state epidemiologist. Dr. Carl Armstong told reporters that although heightened concern about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is understandable, “emphasis on [...]

New York Student Omar Rivera, 12, is Fourth American Child this Month to Die from Lethal Superbug MRSA

The death of a 12-year-old middle school student in New York on October 14, 2007 is being attributed to the superbug known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Omar Rivera was a seventh grade student at Intermediate School 211 in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn. New York City health officials said they had [...]

Florida Man Fired Over MRSA Infection

Two years ago, Morris Yomtov contracted a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection while clearing hurricane debris from his Florida yard. This week, he’s out of a job.
Yomtov was chatting with coworkers and mentioned that he acquired an antibiotic-resistant strain of staph when he scraped his arms two years ago, he told Miami’s CBS 4. [...]

More Than a Dozen Cases of MRSA in New Jersey Schools This Month; State Still Has No Mandated Reporting

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Last updated, December 7, 2007.

Parents and school officials in New Jersey are growing increasingly concerned at what appears to be an upswing in cases of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Although the state of New Jersey keeps no comprehensive statistical data on community-acquired [...]

Connecticut Officials Respond to Community Acquired MRSA Cases in Nine Towns

Connecticut cases of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA) ballooned 177% during a 6 year period, according to Department of Public Health statistics released by the state. The skyrocketing community-acquired infection rate far outpaced the 1.6% increase in hospital-acquired MRSA infections during the same period. Community-acquired MRSA is an antibiotic-resistant staph infection contracted in [...]

Shae Kiernan, 11, of Mississippi Succumbs to MRSA in Under 3 Days

A methicillin-resistant staph infection (MRSA) has left a small community in Jackson County, Mississippi stunned after claiming the life of 11-year-old Shae Kiernan of Vancleave on Friday, October 12, 2007. One of three American children to succumb to the disease in recent weeks, her uncle told the Mississippi Press that what started as a [...]

Staph Triggers Lethal Pneumonia in New Hampshire Preschooler Catherine Bentley

4-year-old Catherine Ann Bentley of Salisbury, New Hampshire died on Friday, October 12, 2007 at Boston Children’s Hospital after contracting Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a virulent strain of staph that does not respond well to penicillin. Catherine was reported to be in good health until acquiring the staph bacteria often referred to as a [...]

Methicillin-Resistant Staph Infection Claims Life of Ashton Bonds, 17

On Monday, October 15, 2007, a 17-year-old Virginia high school senior named Ashton Bonds died of complications from a staph infection known as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). The otherwise healthy student at Staunton River High School in Moneta, Virginia struggled with the MRSA infection for about a week before succumbing to the [...]

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