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MRSA at a local school

A local school had a student that has developed MRSA, which is an antiobiotic resistant form of staph infection.

The school, rather than following the advice of the school nurse, is staying open instead of closing and properly disinfecting the entire building(Which is what they're supposed to do to ensure proper control of the MRSA).

Is that not crazy?

"I hope you brought enough for everyone, young man."

Depends on how bad of a case of MRSA. We have a student with MRSA in the dorms here and as far as I know, there have been no closings.

When I was getting tested for MRSA (because I was showing symptoms), I did research on it and it generally isn't a big deal. People have just been making it into a bigger deal. Just like many diseases, it's not that big of a deal unless it gets into the blood stream or you already have a weakened immune system.

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The symptoms of MRSA depend on where you're infected. Most often, it causes mild infections on the skin, causing pimples or boils. But it can also cause more serious skin infections or infect surgical wounds, the bloodstream, the lungs, or the urinary tract.

Though most MRSA infections aren't serious, some can be life-threatening. Many public health experts are alarmed by the spread of tough strains of MRSA. Because it's hard to treat, MRSA is sometimes called a "super bug."

http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-a...ococcus-aureus

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MRSA is no more infectious than other types of SA bacteria. However, MRSA infections are more difficult to treat due to the antibiotic-resistance of the bacteria. Antibiotics can still be used to treat MRSA - the infection may simply require a much higher dose over a much longer period, or the use of an antibiotic to which the bacteria is not resistant.

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles...?articleId=252

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At home, in most cases, you only need to use good handwashing. Healthy family members, who do not have large open wounds, skin diseases, or have diabetes, are not likely to get MRSA.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heic/...rsa/index.html

And when I was being tested, the doctor didn't sound like it was anything for me or the school to be concerned about. It was more just like "oh, this might be MRSA, do you want me to send this in for testing?"

Hopefully they keep that school clean regularly anyway.

MSRA is BS, its a bacterial infection, period. It is resistant to the normal antibiotics and requires some heavy shit. If a person is diagnosed and given proper dosages of antibiotics there is nothing to worry about. The nurse is obviously one who doesn't know much about this stuff.

@CJ: When you said you were being tested I asked my Father about it, he's a microbiologist with almost 30 years doing this stuff and highly respected up here, and he said the same thing; it is sensationalism created by the media and webmd. There are cases of this all the time, its only a problem if misdiagnosed, or if the person is doesn't take their medication in proper doses.

On Friday, before the day let out, we were all given a pamphlet on how horrible staph was, and how it was going to kill us all if we don't clip our fingernails.

I swear, is this the kinda fear mongering world we want to live in? Why do we put up with this crap?

The sad thing is that some parents are keeping they're kids in from the school because there's a possibility that they might get infected.

Are we really that afraid?

Tell them to make sure their kids bath regularly and keep cuts clean.

Normally, I wouldn't be one to raise panic about this. But when we get highly-resistant strains of bacteria in an institution that isn't properly equipped to handle an infection, I'd be worried. I think the nurse was justified in making that warning, because I'd sure as hell hate having MRSA around in an environment where it has that many potential hosts.

If it were any other form of staph infection, or any other non-fatal infection, I couldn't care less, but the highly-resistant forms have to be treated with respect.

I agree that we are becoming too afraid of infection in modern society, but that doesn't mean we should throw caution to the wind.

Heh... y'know it's amazing that I've never heard of MRSA until CJ said that she may be infected with it. Nobody that I know of while I'm in school has MRSA and the schools that I went to never warned about it... So I really don't know what to think when people suggest to close a school just because of one person who has this infection.

You know what's crazier?

How we're breeding antibiotic resistant bacteria with our constant bacterial fear mongering.

"Antibiotic Dial Hand Soap. Kills 99.9% of bacteria, guaranteed!"

Yeah, you know that 0.1%? You know why they survive? Because they're resistant to the antibiotics. Then they reproduce, and their spawn is also resistant to the antibiotic. And then you have all kinds of resistant bacteria that need larger doses of stronger antibiotics to cure.

Then you end up, eventually, with bacteria that we can't treat because a sufficient dose of antibiotics to kill them would also kill the host. This isn't a problem in medical antibiotics, because the natural immune system wipes up any surviving bacteria pretty easily, but antibiotic soaps create all kinds of antibiotic resistant bacteria like MRSA (and, eventually, worse).

Good job, Dial. Good job.

Also: Fuck you.

Agreed. We're far too afraid of bacteria. These "superbugs" are caused by overuse of antibiotics, prescription or no. There are antibiotics in nearly every aspect of modern society. It's insane.

Side note: Disinfectants with alcohol are perfectly safe to use, regardless of worries about superbugs. It's hard for bacteria to adapt to having their proteins denatured :D