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Iona College reports 10 mild cases of resistant staph infections
Author: Health News20.10.2007
Ten cases of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection have been confirmed among members of an athletic team at Iona College, the Westchester County health commissioner said Friday.
One student athlete was hospitalized but had already been released, said the commissioner, Dr. Joshua Lipsman. He said the outbreak was ‘under control.’ Cecelia Donohoe, a spokeswoman at Iona, said all the cases had been caught early and were mild, ‘a pimple or a boil.’
Staph infections, including the serious Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, have spread through schools nationwide in recent weeks, according to health and education officials. A high school senior in Virginia died of the disease on Monday, his mother said. Read more