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Oct 28, 2007 1:21 pm US/Eastern

Possible Staph Infection In Mt. Vernon Schools

All Public Schools In Mt. Vernon Are Being Disinfected

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) ― All public schools in Mount Vernon are being disinfected after a worker and a student showed signs of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection -- the so-called superbug implicated in the recent death of a Brooklyn boy.

Schools Superintendent W. L. Tony Sawyer says a high school employee and a third-grade student are being tested for the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, or MRSA.

He says the two will stay home from the schools -- Edward Williams Elementary and Nelson Mandela Community High -- until the test results are known.

Sawyer says that if either tests positive, the school system will redouble its efforts to disinfect. But he says medical authorities have said the schools will not need to close.

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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