MRSA Notes

School started today here in College Station, TX, where we live. Our school system has been so good about making parents of their students aware of MRSA by including literature about it in their beginning of the year info packets - so good that I knew what MRSA was when Marshall got it ( almost 2 years ago now). Had it not been for those fact sheets from the schools, I would have never known, and would have never known to ask - and I shudder to think what would have happened had we waited ANY longer.

Anyway, schools in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County are including a brochure in their athletic informational packets this year and discussing with parents how to best avoid the infection:

The brochure “will go out to all the athletes in the school district as their sports come up,” district spokeswoman Cissy Bowman said. “We’re posting it on our Web site, and it will also be posted in all our locker rooms.”

The Allegheny County Health Department is urging coaches, trainers and athletes to take precautions against the infection, as preseason training camps for fall sports get under way.

Simple efforts such as this will go a mighty long way in preventing the horrendous tragedies we have seen in the last few years in high school athletics.

Source

Awareness, MRSA in Schools/Athletics, MRSA in the U.S., Pennsylvania

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