Articles labeled: antibiotic resistance

Holy mass healthscare batman!

Forget HIV, forget the measles, mumps, cancer or the plague — children are catching staph infections that are literally killing them with no cure or antibiotic to fight against it and it’s contagious and in our children’s schools:

BEDFORD, Virginia (AP) — A high school student who was hospitalized for more than a week with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection has died, and officials shut down 21 schools for cleaning to keep the illness from spreading.

Ashton Bonds, 17, a senior at Staunton River High School, died Monday after he was found to have Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, his mother said.

“I want people to know how sick it made my son,” Veronica Bonds said.

Staph infections, including the serious MRSA strain, have spread through schools nationwide in recent weeks, according to health and education officials.