Wednesday, October 24, 2007
NILES – The high school remained open Wednesday as the locker room was sanitized after a football player was identified as having a drug-resistant staph bacteria infection.
Superintendent Rocco Adduci said Wednesday that the unidentified player remains hospitalized. Kathy Salapata, a registered nurse at the city health department, said the student is recovering “very well.”
Adduci said the school district has taken all the precautions recommended by the health department.
Salapata, who has been monitoring the case, said the results of tests received Wednesday showed there is a preliminary positive response of Metchicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, or MRSA.
The football player has a cut knee, Salapata said, and that’s probably how the MRSA entered his body. She recommended that cuts and scrapes be covered to prevent contracting the staph or spreading it.