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Check out this here email I received yesterday from Naperville Community Unit School District 203's mailing list:
Subject: District 203 working with DuPage Health Department to address MRSA concerns
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:33:13 -0400 (14:33 CDT)
It was reported to District 203 and Naperville North administrators late afternoon on Wednesday, October 17, that we most likely had two confirmed cases of students with MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphyloccoccus Aureus) infections. Both students have been treated and released by their physicians and were cleared to return to school.
In an effort to be proactive and precautionary, we chose to inform high school parents. Today, in response to media and parent inquiry, we decided to expand our communication in an effort to reassure the community and to encourage parents to review personal hygiene precautions with their children.
To view the Talk203 message sent to high school parents, please see the District 203 homepage, [link|http://www.naperville203.org|http://www.naperville203.org] and click on the News headline. If you are not a Talk203 subscriber, please click on the Talk203 box to register for this email notification service.
Edward Hospital has a very helpful web page with MRSA-related questions and answers and additional links posted. It is: [link|http://www.edward.org/body.cfm?id=760|http://www.edward.org/body.cfm?id=760]
We are working with the DuPage County Health Department, as is customary, and will follow their direction and guidelines to assure the continued safety of our students and staff.
It's not
Acinetobacter baumannii, but it's here in my backyard. And I've got 2 kids in elementary school. Not the kind of email I was looking forward to receiving yesterday afternoon, I tell you what.
-YendorMike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Yendor
Oct. 19, 2007, 08:50:30 AM EDT
Re: Hot new untreatable bug coming to your hospital ... soon
Check out this here email I received yesterday from Naperville Community Unit School District 203's mailing list:
Subject: District 203 working with DuPage Health Department to address MRSA concerns
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:33:13 -0400 (14:33 CDT)
It was reported to District 203 and Naperville North administrators late afternoon on Wednesday, October 17, that we most likely had two confirmed cases of students with MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphyloccoccus Aureus) infections. Both students have been treated and released by their physicians and were cleared to return to school.
In an effort to be proactive and precautionary, we chose to inform high school parents. Today, in response to media and parent inquiry, we decided to expand our communication in an effort to reassure the community and to encourage parents to review personal hygiene precautions with their children.
To view the Talk203 message sent to high school parents, please see the District 203 homepage, [link|http://www.naperville203.org|http://www.naperville203.org] and click on the News headline. If you are not a Talk203 subscriber, please click on the Talk203 box to register for this email notification service.
Edward Hospital has a very helpful web page with MRSA-related questions and answers and additional links posted. It is: [link|http://www.edward.org/body.cfm?id=760|http://www.edward.org/body.cfm?id=760]
We are working with the DuPage County Health Department, as is customary, and will follow their direction and guidelines to assure the continued safety of our students and staff.
It's not
Acinetobacter baumannii, but it's here in my backyard. And I've got 2 kids in elementary school. Not the kind of email I was looking forward to receiving yesterday afternoon, I tell you what.
-YendorMike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
