Staph News » Idaho http://www.staphnews.com Your Source for Staph and MRSA News Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:20:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 MRSA Outbreak Worries Parents in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho http://www.staphnews.com/staph-infections-by-location/idaho/mrsa-outbreak-worries-parents-in-coeur-d%e2%80%99alene-idaho/ http://www.staphnews.com/staph-infections-by-location/idaho/mrsa-outbreak-worries-parents-in-coeur-d%e2%80%99alene-idaho/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:57:44 +0000 Staph News Editor http://www.staphnews.com/staph-infections-by-location/idaho/mrsa-outbreak-worries-parents-in-coeur-d%e2%80%99alene-idaho/ Two students and a staff member at Ramsey Elementary School in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho have been diagnosed with the potentially fatal superbug known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. MRSA is the virulent and difficult to treat staph infection that claimed the lives of children in New York, Mississippi, New Hampshire, and Virginia this month.

The Ramsey Elementary School serves 600 students and is staffed by at least 50 employees.  A thorough disinfection of school facilities and playground equipment began Friday after school administrators were notified that a first grade student had contracted a MRSA infection.  School custodians continued to disinfect the school grounds on Monday before students arrived for class.

Some parents of Ramsey Elementary students told local station KXLY that they are nervous about having their children at the school when  the incidence of MRSA infections appears to be on the rise.  School officials are following the recommendations of national and localhealth agencies

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