MRSA Outbreak Reported at Lafayette High School in Lexington, Kentucky
Three confirmed cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureas (MRSA) have been reported to administrators at Lafayette High School in Lexington, Kentucky. MRSA is the virulent staph infection that made headlines last month when it claimed the lives of four American children.
The three infected students are under the care of a physician. School officials are working [...]
MRSA Scare Prompts Kentucky County to Close All Schools for Disinfection
Following the recent confirmation of at least five staph infections in Kentucky’s Pike County school district, all 23 district schools will be closed for disinfection this Monday. The closing will impact approximately 10,300 students.
Principals will oversee the sanitizing of classrooms, bathrooms, cafeterias, and hallways, as well as school buses, fields, and playgrounds. A [...]
8 Boone County, Kentucky Students with Staph Infections Do Not Have MRSA
Residents of Boone County, Kentucky received good news today when they learned that the eight reported staph infections at Larry A. Ryle High School in Union are not antibiotic-resistant strains. It had been previously feared that the eight students had contracted methicillin-resistant staph infections (MRSA), but laboratory cultures revealed the infections were caused by [...]