No bars on kids with staph infection

Although other kids should make sure they don't walk around with open wounds, since these kids picked up the infections from somewhere in the school. But person to person transmission is difficult, unless someone has an compromised immunity system and then they most likely aren't going to be in school anyway.
But there is one really excellent way to protect yourself from MRSA...WASH YOUR HANDS!!!!

She is making the kids wipe down their desks every day with bleach. She gave us some spray to spray all the doorknobs and other places the kids touch. And she bought hand sanitizer dispensers and put them all over the school.

The other day she told me there is a MRSA case at one of the schools in our district. I asked where and she said she couldn't tell me. Gee, that's assuring, isn't it?

She also went nuts after 9/11 and put plastic and duct tape on the windows. The lack of fresh air about killed us all. :rofl:

Goodness, I wouldn't last a day.

because she really is a great principal most of the time and she really does put the kids first. But she is a republican and has some pretty nutty ideas. When she covered the windows with plastic, I about lost it. She really drank the 9/11 koolaid. I told her that I didn't think the terrorists were interested in our kids or our school and we were going to have to open some windows or someone was going to get sick. So she let us take down the plastic. Then on election day in 2004, she was talking to me about going to vote after school and she stopped and said "Oh, but you probably don't want me to vote, do you? You'd probably be happy if I just stayed here and worked late tonight." I just smiled :)

and I would rather have her than some of the other dipshit principals I have worked for. I could write a book. Really. :)

Thats what is helping promote MRSA and other drug resistant bacteria!AARGH. ITs a fine line between because cautious and being paranoid and in this case paranoia can make things much worse....

But if I die, I will let you know. :)

if they are cleaning their desks with bleach.

One more reason I would never be a principal.

So while wiping down desks and everything sounds like a good idea, as soon as the kids' books and hard surface belongings are put back on those desks, the MRSA returns to the desk. Anyone with broken skin who touches that desk then is at risk of getting it.
I just watched 60 Minutes report on MRSA and they left out the 90 day thing--none of the so called experts mentioned it, either. They touched on it, saying that one school did wipe everything down but once the kids returned more cases were found. Well, YEAH, cuz with the kids' return comes their MRSA covered belongings...which then gets transferred back to desks, lockers, etc.
One doc said that it is spread ONLY from person to person. Gee, then why is it that in hospitals we give MRSA patients their own throw-away plastic stethascope, thermometer, and blood pressure cuff?? Because the MRSA is alive and well on those things and once they get used on another pt, that pt now has MRSA on them/their skin.
Tulsa World is covering all their local school districts that are reporting MRSA cases...including my sis's district who tried to keep their cases hush-hush from the parents. One girl in sis' district got it behind her eyeball, another had it spread from a pimple under her armpit, and yet another got it at the injection site when she went and got her flu shot (the site got infected and had to be cut out of her skin). I'm thinking the eyeball case was perhaps the girl getting it on her hand and then touching her eye??

Oh..and the other part of the report: Pharm companies are now working on a MRSA vaccine. Just what we need, yet another vaccine that will be putting $$$ in the big pharm goons and all of the potential side effects that come with it (for them to deny).



For more on MRSA www.mrsanotes.com

despite the fact that both small pox and polio are extinct in this country because of them and also the lack of vaccination has allowed petussis (whooping cough) measles and mumps to make a comeback.
evil scientists--working on a vaccine so we don't have to worry about a FATAL and now common infection. Gosh. Wanting to save lives. Yeah, evul
As for side effects--most are so slight as to be not even noticeable but are still RECORDED and I have had EVERY vaccine you can think of with NO side effects....
(can you not see the UTTER hypocrisy about talking about how MRSA is much more transmissible than most think and then whining about researchers wanting to prevent it by a vaccine?

or any other 'dangerous' chemicals.

Hand sanitizer dispensers are not a bad idea. It's cold & flu season.

The plastic and duct tape's a bit much, though.

But I guess teachers can actually see the kids use hand sanitizer while they may not know if they wash their hands in the bathroom.

Considering that school is probably where they got it to begin with.