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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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