Youth didn’t get MRSA at city school

YOUNGSTOWN — City school officials said a fourth-grade boy at West Elementary School was diagnosed with a case of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) last week. The school was closed Wednesday and Thursday for cleaning as a result of the case and reopened Friday. The child didn’t contract the infection at the school, a district spokesman said, explaining that the family learned that he contracted it elsewhere. No other cases of staph infection have been reported in the school, a district spokesman said. Eagle Heights Academy was closed for cleaning Friday as the result of a girl with a staph infection. School officials didn’t know if the infection was the MRSA variety. The school reopened Monday.