[Gopher Broke]

Very sad news....prayers to the family of this young man....

[rockabyebaby]

Prayers for Ashton and his family......there is another young man named Cody with the same illness, he however, is doing better, prayers for Cody.

[AppyPappy]

Dang. They shut down every school in Bedford County.

[AppyPappy]

Dang. They shut down every school in Bedford County.

[TommyDale]

They should call it what it is commonly known at hospitals, MRSA. Deadly.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

MRSA is a strain of staph bacteria that does not respond to penicillin and related antibiotics but can be treated with other drugs.

I've been reading that drug-resistant bacteria strains are proliferating, due in no small part to the irresponsible use of anti-bacterial ingredients in hand soap and other products. The nice thing about antibiotics is that they can kill harmful bacteria inside our bodies without killing us. There are plenty of chemicals to kill bacteria outside of our bodies, such as alcohol. Letting the antibiotic weapons we've gained over the last century become useless because they're being used as marketing gimmicks is incredibly irresponsible.

[Greg F]

Wash your hands, soap and hot water as you leave any institutional facility (school, prison, hospital, gym). Keep an alcohol hand cleaner in the car, wash again. Wash when you get home before you play with the kids. Don’t take pens and stuff into the institution if you can help it; the staph can get on that and you can carry it out of the place. Staph will live for a few days on stuff. Take off your clothes and don’t wear them again until they are washed. Make sure any cuts are bandaged if you are going into an institution. Keep your nails short so you don’t touch it, scratch yourself a little wound, and get the infection.

Lots of staph in schools, prisons, nursing homes.

[Kay]

This particular strain of MRSA must be unusually virulent and unique if it is shutting down these schools. This is quite peculiar. I’d like to hear their reasoning.

We are seeing 60% MRSA in our skin abscesses — affecting all walks of life (rich, poor, educated, etc) as well as all ages, including infants. It is definitely an epidemic but we would have to shut down our whole state if we followed Virginia’s example. Currently, no studies have shown successful methods to eradicate MRSA in people who have had MRSA or who are colonized with it.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Time to bring on the bacteriophages!!!!!

[TASMANIANRED]

Ashton was septic...

Prayers for his family.

[word_warrior_bob]

Staph has been adapting and proving to be a formidable adversary. Some hospitals are “stuck” with it. It’s been a big problem in the NFL and other locker rooms. I’m surprised this is the first time we’re seeing this kind of reaction.

[YourAdHere]

Just a coincidence that Virginia has an illegal immigrant problem.

[LibFreeOrDie]

One Nashua, New Hampshire, high school had several cases recently.

A young child died from it in NH in the past few days:

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=NH+child+dies+from+staph+infection%3b+source+unknown&articleId=c1a79fc7-686f-4d18-8b13-6e9c85d4542f

[chemicalman]

My sister’s ex hubby had the infection. He only lasted 24 hrs after the doctors found out what it was.

[HollyB]

I picked up one of these infections while in the hospital for a surgery. Had a cut on my finger and the infection spread fast and furious. Spent a week in the hospital on IV’s. Then spent weeks taking more antibiotics at home. Never been so sick in my life, then it left me exhausted for a very, very long time.

Word of advise, put a band aid on even the smallest cut if you go to the hospital, even to visit someone.