Link: Nashuatelegraph.com: School aide and student have MRSA.
– A student and a staff member at Sunset Heights Elementary School have been diagnosed with MRSA, a type of staph infection that has developed a resistance to common antibiotics.
Superintendent Christopher Hottel said the student is in the intensive-needs program at the school and was sent home April 18 with a skin infection. Hottel said the infection was diagnosed as MRSA, which is short for methicillin-resistant staph aureus.
The school contacted the city’s public health department and the intensive-needs classroom was disinfected the following Monday, he said. The student did not return to school that week, he said.
"We thought that was the end of that issue," Hottel said.
Also last week, a paraprofessional who works with the student complained of a similar skin infection, and Friday it was learned that the staff member had been diagnosed with MRSA as well.
