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Here are some photos of what staph infections may look like. As always, if you suspect that you have a staph infection, see your doctor immediately.

MRSA case found in South Boston School

In South Boston on Friday a MRSA case has been reported by local doctors. It so so important to make sure your children take proper steps to aviod MRSA.

SOUTH BOSTON – Dr. Charles Devine, district director of the Southside Health Department, confirmed Thursday a case of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, has surfaced at South Boston Elementary School.

Working with the school system, Devine sent a letter home to parents of all children at South Boston Elementary School on Wednesday informing them that MRSA had been positively identified at the school.

“We’re doing everything we can as a division to make sure our schools are clean and our students are safe,” Halifax County School Superintendent Paul Stapleton said.

Stapleton said the student who had the infection was under the care of a physician and was homebound until the physician determined the student fit to return to school.

“The classroom was sanitized”

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Studies highlight growing threat of MRSA infection

Studies highlight growing threat of MRSA infection

January 24, 2008

Researchers in the United States have warned about the likelihood of new strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) emerging over the next fews years and the threats they pose. MRSA is not only considered a growing problem among people, but among horses, with up to 5% of horses in the general population known to carry the bacteria. On some farms, the prevalence can exceed 50%.

Carrier horses may never have a problem with MRSA, but are more likely to develop an MRSA infection under certain conditions, and there is a risk they can transmit MRSA to other horses and people.

The latest US research has explored Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections, caused primarily by a single strain – USA300.

“The USA300 group of strains appears to have extraordinary transmissibility and fitness,” says Dr Frank DeLeo, based at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana. “We anticipate that new USA300 derivatives will emerge within the next several years and that these strains will have a wide range of disease-causing potential.”

CA-MRSA is considered an emerging public health concern. It typically causes readily treatable soft-tissue infections such as boils, but also can lead to life-threatening conditions that are difficult to treat.

Two studies have been conducted into CA-MRSA. One resolves debate about the evolution of CA-MRSA in the United States, ruling out the previously held possibility that multiple strains of USA300 – the most troublesome type of CA-MRSA in the United States – emerged randomly with similar characteristics.

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