An informational meeting is being held for parents of students at a Brooklyn elementary school after a student was found to have contracted a drug-resistant staph infection.
A letter was sent home with students at P.S. 3 in Bedford-Stuyvesant yesterday, informing parents that a student at the school had MRSA – the same potentially deadly staph infection that took the life of a 12-year-old in Canarsie earlier this month. The school principal says she learned of the case Monday morning.
The letter says most cases of MRSA aren’t fatal, that the bug is treatable and preventable with frequent hand washing.
Good idea.
I wonder if it would help to send children to school with a small, travel-size bottle of Purell sanitizing gel? It is available at most drug stores near the register, for a low price.