Oct 26, 2007 12:14 am US/Eastern
MRSA Reported At Baltimore County School
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) ―
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Two MRSA cases in Baltimore County are the latest in a growing number of staph infections sweeping the country and right here in Maryland.
WJZ
The drug-resistant skin infection called MRSA continues to spread throughout the state. Students continue to get diagnosed in area schools.
Mary Bubala has more on the recent cases discovered in the Baltimore County schools.
Three school children at Stricker Middle School have come down with unnamed skin infections.
Two MRSA cases in Baltimore County are the latest in a growing number of staph infections sweeping the country and right here in Maryland.
The mother of a Baltimore County student diagnosed with MRSA doesn't want her name or face on camera. But she says the illness has spread to all four members of her household.
"First you have a boil in one place. As soon as that one goes away, it comes up in another place," said the unidentified mother.
School officials are not naming the schools where MRSA has been confirmed. But letters were sent home to parents at Stricker Middle School after three students came down with what's simply being called "skin infections."
A spokesperson says test results are not available that would confirm or disprove MRSA, a potentially deadly form of staph infection that has already claimed the life of a Virginia high school student.
Dozens of staph cases have been confirmed in four Anne Arundel County high schools, 24 in Montgomery County schools, 13 in Carroll County and another at a Harford County elementary school. This is along with several cases in Howard County and Washington, D.C.
"It's scary, but I also want to know where it came from and how all of a sudden a situation that was contained is no longer contained," said the mother.
Doctors say the rise in staph infections is a national trend. Although the more serious MRSA strains are resistant to certain antibiotics, they say it can be treated with others.
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