Parents want answers
from schools about MRSA
Concerned parents in Natural Bridge. Photo by Mary Childs.
The Rockbridge County School Board faced anxious parents Wednesday night in a meeting to address the recent MRSA infections.
Six students have been diagnosed with the potentially deadly Staph infection in the Rockbridge County school system in the past two weeks. Nurses from the Central Shenandoah Health Department were on hand to explain how the bacterium spreads.
Parents were instructed to stress hand-washing to their children. The School Board agreed to do a better job of communicating when a student becomes infected.
Nerves are strained after the death of a high school student at Staunton River High School, an hour from Lexington in Bedford County.
CDC info about MRSA
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