MRSA Confirmed In Dead New York School Student

Health officials from New York city confirmed yesterday that a seventh grade male student who died on the 14th of October had MRSA, a highly infectious drug resistant form of staph bacteria that normally occurs in hospitals and nursing homes but is now beginning to take hold in community based places such as sports centres, schools and gyms. It has become known as CA-MRSA, or community-acquired MRSA. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on October 28th, 2007