'Superbug' concern at New York schools
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Public schools in Mount Vernon are being disinfected after a worker and a student showed signs of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, authorities said.
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Nine athletes and a coach at Iona College contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, which has spread through schools nationwide
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Drug-resistant bacteria are infecting more people in community settings such as prisons and public housing, and not just in hospitals where such "superbugs" can run rampant, researchers said on Monday.
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By Leigh Ann Tipton, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 21--HARTFORD -- Horse Branch Elementary School principal Jeff Martin is worried about the fate of his school.   The school's septic system is failing, and raw sewage is coming to the surface on school grounds.
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Hospitals across the Washington region are mounting increasingly aggressive defenses against a virulent bacterium resistant to antibiotics that turns seemingly minor skin abrasions, cuts and sores into serious, even life-threatening, infections.
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Scary drug-resistant bacteria are on the rise, but there are simple ways to avoid infection.
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Students at a high school in Virginia prepared Thursday for the funeral of a popular classmate, the victim of a deadly drug-resistant strain of bacteria that has turned up in schools across the country recently.
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School officials around the country have been scrambling this week after several cases of staph infection some of which have led to the death of students.
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Fairfax County health officials warned principals at all county public schools yesterday to be on the lookout for students or staff with symptoms of whooping cough after several students were
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New York City's health care system is not prepared for a major disaster such as a large-scale attack, hurricane or pandemic, health care and disaster planning experts said.
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Anne Arundel County school officials have sent letters home and urged better hygiene after reports of bacterial skin infections among more than two dozen students. But officials say there is no outbreak and no need to panic.
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By Stephen T. Watson, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Jun. 5--At Maple West Elementary School, a class of second-graders pulled together a polished PowerPoint presentation on all sorts of creepy-crawly bugs.
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Israeli medical officials investigate a superbug outbreak in hospitals that may have killed dozens of people.
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Among patients treated at urban public hospital emergency rooms for skin and soft-tissue infections, more and more often the cause appears to be the antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' known as MRSA, new research shows.
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An unusually virulent virus could be behind an outbreak of meningitis that led to the hospitalization of six seventh-grade football players in Cy-Fair ISD, school officials and infectious-disease experts said Wednesday.
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A once-rare drug-resistant germ now appears to cause more than half of all skin infections treated in U.S. emergency rooms, say researchers who documented the superbug's startling spread in the general population.
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Testing all new hospital patients for a dangerous staph "superbug" could help wipe out a germ that likely kills more Americans than AIDS, consumer advocates say and early evidence suggests. Yet few U.S. hospitals do it, and many fight efforts to require it. Why?