Maryland Teacher’s Death Linked to MRSA
Posted on December 11, 2007
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A Montgomery County, Maryland teacher died on Sunday, December 9, 2007 due to complications related to the dangerous superbug known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. Merry King, 48, was a resident of Silver Spring and taught special education students at Herbert Hoover Middle School in Rockville.
Rockville, Maryland is close to Baltimore, the area with the highest rate of MRSA infections in the United States.
King had been absent from her job at Herbert Hoover Middle School since November 30, 2007, and was hospitalized on December 4 after pain throughout her body worsened, her daughter told the Washington Post. She succumbed to the MRSA infection on Sunday evening after six days in a coma.
There is no indication that King contracted the MRSA infection at the Herbert Hoover Middle School. A school spokesperson said no one at the school was at increased risk of developing drug-resistant staph, but King’s classroom was sanitized with a bleach solution as a precautionary measure.
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