MRSA “Outbreak” Downplayed - Boston
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Two Fitchburg students diagnosed with infections linked to the fast-moving, difficult-to-treat MRSA bacteria are not contagious, state health officials said yesterday.
“People refer to this as an outbreak, but it really isn’t,” said Dr. Bela Matyas, medical director of epidemiology at the Department of Public Health. “These children pose no risk to anyone else. They’re only related in that they happen to be in the same school district.”
Schools Superintendent Andre Ravenelle referred all questions yesterday to DPH. But on Thursday, he sent out a letter informing parents that the district had confirmed two cases of infections stemming from MRSA, the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusa bacteria that is resistant to some kinds of antibiotics.
One student is 8, and the other is 11, Matyas said, with separate wound- and pneumonia-related infections. Both are under doctors’ care. He did not know the kids’ prognoses.
My DR. told me I have MRSA. I thought it was a cyst or something. This is really terrible. We have a real problem. He told me that from July 1 to date he had treated between 100 and 125 case in Jacksonville Fl. This is some kind of nasty stuff. I have heard nothing on the radio or TV about MRSA but for a few comments of some isolated cases.
Why?
This is a really nasty bug and nothing is being said.
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