Posted on 10/18/2007 6:09:41 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A high school student hospitalized for more than a week with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection died on Monday, as schools across the country were reporting outbreaks of staph infections, including the antibiotic-resistant strain.
The student, Ashton Bonds, 17, was a senior at Staunton River High School in Moneta, Va., and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, was diagnosed in him, his mother said.
Officials shut down all 22 schools in Bedford County for cleaning today in an effort to keep the illness from spreading, after students at Staunton River organized a protest overnight Monday, using text messages and social networking sites. On Tuesday, the student organizers led the Bedford County schools superintendent, James Blevins, on a tour of the Staunton River school to show him the state of its sanitation, particularly in its locker rooms.
Mr. Blevins said at a news conference today that the high school would be cleaned today by a commercial cleaning company, and the county’s 21 other schools would be cleaned by their janitors.
Health and education officials have reported that staph infections, including the serious MRSA strain, have spread through schools nationwide in recent weeks.
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Now THIS is a deadly serious reason to homeschool.
This is starting to be of more than academic concern (no pun intended — deadly serious).
It might be one good reason, though the infections are widespread enough that home educated children are also at risk; just not as exposed as when they mingle in public schools.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
6 staph cases confirmed
Athletes at East Forsyth found to have drug-resistant infections
By Laura Giovanelli
JOURNAL REPORTER
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Athletes, particularly those who participate in sports that require close contact such as wrestling, are more likely to catch staph infections.
People who have uncovered cuts or scrapes, poor hygiene and live in crowded conditions are also more susceptible, according to the CDC.
It is generally hard to find statistics about MRSA. The infection that it causes is a communicable disease but it is not a disease that local health departments are required to keep numbers on and report to the state.
North Carolina hospitals aren’t required to disclose their infection rates, although that will soon change. A law passed this year sets up an advisory commission that will help prepare hospitals and other facilities to collect and make infection rates public.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week was one of the first to show how widespread the fierce bacterium has become. Researchers took samples from people who visited 11 emergency rooms for a skin or tissue infection. Their work showed that MRSA was the cause 59 percent of the time.
It’s getting to where there just isn’t any good reason to send a child to public schools.
AQ has strongly hinted that the next wave of terrorist attacks will target schools.
A biological agent deliberately introduced???
More a result of antibacterial soaps. They kill the germs that fight the MRSA
Don't forget improper use of antibiotics.
Scientist: Your overuse of antibacterial soap has resulted in your daughter getting MRSA.
Typical overprotective soccer mom: But my daughter needs to protect herself from all those nasty bacteria.
Scientist: You killed all the good bacteria, and now the bad bacteria are taking over.
Typical overprotective soccer mom: Well in that case I'll make sure she uses the antibacterial soap more often!
I don't think so because this problem has been around for years and gradually became more prevalent. It may be going parabolic now. A deadly microorganism with an incidence parabolically growing is not something to sneeze at.
This bug can’t be killed by most antibiotics - I doubt regular cleaning supplies will do much good. People need to educate themselves and learn and practice preventive medicine
What does going parabolic mean? Does it mean growing exponentially? This one scares me more than the over-hyped bird flu and anthrax threats.
Savage was going on about this, with a CA ER nurse the other day.
He was saying all this MRSA is coming with these illegal immigrants being there is no Ellis Island anymore, and they are infecting our ER’s because they use them for first care.
When we used to monitor our immigrants, we didn’t let in the ones that carried diseases. Now everything is pouring across the borders.
I think the pont we are missing here is how these kids have become susceptable to this in the first place.
Could it be from over-prescribing antibiotics for colds and sore throats??
Could it be from not finishing all of the medication when an antibiotic is medically necessary and called for??
Could it be from a lack of basic sanitary habits as simple as hand washing that spreads staph all over the place, and not just at the public schools?
Could it be all of the above instead of some mysterious new deadly mutant germ??
Just asyin’...
“...have spread through schools nationwide in recent weeks.”
Run down of the states are: Virgina, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina and Florida.
Most are isolated single schools, Virgina and Ohio had multiple schools.
I am very surprised that California is not mentioned. I know of no cases in the schools here, but expected it.
Am I the only one “paranoid” enough to find this
MUCH MORE THAN A LITTLE ODD?
All of a sudden, we have an epidemic?
Why? Where from?
Have the little globalist puppet masters in the bio warfare labs been working overtime . . . only to have fun with our children???
Sorry but I don’t trust anyone on such matters any more in today’s context.
The globalists ARE THAT EVIL.
Of course these bugs might only be Purel-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (PRSA), not Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA).
The Mt. Lebanon School District, near Pittsburgh, was reporting 10 athletes (football players) infected. This was the largest grouping (in my area) but there have been sporadic reports (various districts) as well. This is much, much more wide spread than being reported (HIPAA).
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