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Topic: This is like 20 minutes from me

Posted By: Dye Playa
Subject: This is like 20 minutes from me
Date Posted: 19 October 2007 at 9:18pm

WESTON, Conn. -- A case of staph infection has been reported at Newtown High School, making it the second Connecticut school to have a student sickened with the infection. http://video.wnbc.com/player/?id=168879 - VIDEO: Resistant Staph Infection Strikes At Least 2 Conn. Students Earlier Wednesday, news spread that at least one Weston High School student has been diagnosed with a potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant staph infection.

Weston school officials sent a letter home to parents informing them that one case of the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus infection, or MRSA, has been confirmed at the school. Health officials are waiting for results of tests on another student. A similar letter was sent to parents of students at Newtown High School. Officials also posted the letter on the school's Web site.MRSA is a strain of staph bacteria that does not respond to penicillin and related antibiotics but can be treated with other drugs. The infection can be spread by skin-to-skin contact or sharing an item used by an infected person, particularly one with an open wound.About 900 cases are reported to the state Department of Public Health each year and hundreds of others never become serious enough to require reporting, said Dr. James Hadler, the department's chief epidemiologist."My guess is that every school has at least several of them per year and maybe more," Hadler said. "We know that there are thousands of MRSA infections out there per year."Citing privacy laws, Hadler would not say if the department had received a report from Weston. Staph infections, including the serious MRSA strain, have spread through schools nationwide in recent weeks, according to health and education officials. A student in Virginia died from a similar infection earlier this week.Hadler said MRSA infections are often spread in schools among members of the same gym class or sports team, through the shared use of towels or skin-to-skin contact.Schools that report such cases are advised to eliminate the source of the infection and screen students for boils or lesions that might be infected.Students who are being treated for MRSA infections can attend school as long as they keep the infected skin covered, he said."These are not infections we want to mess around with even though they are common," he said. "Anyone with a skin infection should not be having direct skin-to-skin contact with others."

So now we are getting letters and what not, everyone is being encouraged to wash their hands more, and rumors and going like nuts. Apparently it's spreading really fast with sports because of the contact and cuts/scrapes everyone has. I'm a little OCD, so I wash my hands a lot anyways; like 6-10 times a day, lol, but it's like a herd of people in the bathrooms washing their hands and stuff lol. Kind of scary though.

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Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 19 October 2007 at 9:46pm

CT REPRESENT!

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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 19 October 2007 at 9:50pm

So?
Do something about it.

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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 19 October 2007 at 10:19pm

A kid from my high school, who's our starting full back for football, got mersa. Luckily, the doctors caught it in time and he'll be good to go pretty soon.

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Posted By: Horsepower
Date Posted: 19 October 2007 at 10:29pm

Yea, i think the same thing has happened here in Michigan, a couple of schools shut down for cleaning. Thats just so nasty...

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Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 19 October 2007 at 11:17pm

Ya, they are dissenfecting my school this weekend, because to of the
schools around here had cases of it. They are beginning to think that the
artaficial terf might be adding to the problem. Because one of the schools
plays on our field and the other school has terf as well.

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Posted By: jerseypaint
Date Posted: 20 October 2007 at 12:07am

This staph infection is out of control. I hope it doesn't reach around here.

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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 20 October 2007 at 2:26am

went through that last year, almost our entire football team got it, as did a lot of other people in the school.

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Posted By: dmp4892.
Date Posted: 20 October 2007 at 9:08am

What exactly are the symptoms? I've never heard of it...

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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 20 October 2007 at 10:48am

Football team got it last year and anyone who used the weight room and didn't wash themselves properly got it. It's going around again already over here.

Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 20 October 2007 at 11:17am

I guess that mean I'm wiping down equipment before I use it.