Superbug risk strikes Hutchinson

Jorge Sosa — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:52:13 -0600

It can start with a red bump. If left untreated, it can develop into flu-like symptoms and even death.

It’s MRSA — methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — and it’s here in Hutchinson.

“We are starting to see it in our school population,” said Carol Loch, a nurse with Hutchinson School District 423 and West Elementary.

The so-called “superbug” is troubling for a number of reasons. It was first discovered in the 1960s and is a form of bacterium that’s immune to many antibiotics. “There’s a select number of antibiotics that will work on it,” Loch said. “It just depends on which (strain of) bug it is.”

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