School in Cape Cod, Massachusetts Did Not Notify Parents, Public of MRSA Infection
Posted on November 4, 2007
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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 aureus (MRSA) infection on the advice of the Department of Public Health.
Although the Department of Public Health indicated the student was not contagious and did not acquire the MRSA infection at the Morse Pond School, janitors are now disinfecting the facility and school officials will distribute information about staph prevention to students’ families this week. The school’s response follows the MRSA-related deaths of four American children in October and a MRSA scare last week at Mashpee Kids Klub preschool, also on Cape Cod.
As of Sunday, November 4, 2007, the Morse Pond School Web site did not contain any information about MRSA.
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