Staph infection monitored at Fairhaven School

NILES – A toddler and probably a second child, both pupils at Fairhaven School operated by the Trumbull County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, have become infested with MRSA, a staph infection.

Agency Superintendent Dr. Douglas Burkhardt said Tuesday that a boy had been identified earlier in the day by the Niles Health Department as probably being infected with methicillin-resistent staphylococcus aureus.

On Monday, Burkhardt said a girl had by March 26 contracted the infection. Both the boy and girl are under age 3, he noted, and aren’t potty trained.

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