Four Siblings Diagnosed With MRSA
Posted on: Friday, 2 November 2007, 21:00 CDT
Four siblings attending a public school in New York have been diagnosed with the potentially dangerous infection known as MRSA.
Public School 106 in Far Rockaway was cleaned Wednesday as a precaution, officials said. But they told The New York Daily News there are no indications of a spike in MRSA infections in the city.
The four children have not been in school since they were diagnosed. Experts are unsure how they became infected.
MRSA -- a staphylococcus infection that is resistant to methicillin and other common antibiotics -- had been mostly a problem in hospitals but has become increasingly common outside.
A 12-year-old boy died of MRSA in Brooklyn, N.Y. His mother said a doctor at a clinic gave him an ineffective antibiotic, and that emergency room personnel at Kings County Hospital then misdiagnosed him as having an allergic reaction to the drug.
Source: United Press International
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