Keep your kids away from the public schools!!!!
They are SLUMS!!!!
Just ANOTHER REASON to HOME SCHOOL, folks!!!!
"Dead Student Had Infection, Officials Say" by WINNIE HU and SARAH KERSHAW
New York City health officials said yesterday that a Brooklyn middle school student who died on Oct. 14 had become infected with a virulent, drug-resistant strain of bacteria that is primarily spread in hospitals but that in recent years has surfaced increasingly in schools, gyms and other nonhospital settings.
[I think the government has released this germ into the communities.
This never happened before, in all the years of public schools.
Something is not right with this story!]
The school remained open yesterday, and the officials said that school health officials would make any decision to close it. The school sent out a letter informing parents that a student had died from the infection, and that the school had been thoroughly cleaned. The letters also said that hand-washing was the best way to prevent infections.
[Were the schools in shit-shape? Literally?
And the hand-washing cure; a given, but all the kids are what, sticking their fingers up their asses?
Actually, it is public school, so...]
Over the last month, schools in the New York region and in other states across the country have reported cases of students infected with the bacteria, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. Scores of schools have canceled events, closed buildings or sanitized them from top to bottom, and sent health warnings to parents by e-mail and letter.
[Like it a police state test, that's what it smells like.
See how obedient everyone is]
In most cases, the illnesses have been mild and the students, after treatment, recovered. But at least three deaths have been reported, in New Hampshire, Virginia and Mississippi.
Health officials said it was unclear whether such cases were increasing or whether news reports had increased awareness of the infection. This month, a widely publicized federal report said the infection was rampant in hospitals and nursing homes, where a vast majority of cases occur, and might account for more deaths in the United States each year than H.I.V.-AIDS.
[Any time the feds are involved, I smell a stink!]
New York City health officials said yesterday that nonhospital cases of the infection were usually mild, and often limited to the skin. But the bacteria are highly opportunistic and can enter the bloodstream through incisions and wounds and quickly overwhelm a weakened immune system. The student who died, they said, may for some reason have been more susceptible to a serious form of the infection.
[Weakened immunity? In a 14-year-old? How can that be?]
On its Web site, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises that a decision about whether to close a school because of a communicable disease should be made by school officials or by local or state health authorities.
[Or you, readers! HOME SCHOOL your kids!]
But the site advises that “in most cases, it is not necessary to close schools because of an MRSA infection in a student” and that “it is important to note that MRSA transmission can be prevented by simple measures such as hand hygiene and covering infections.”
[Something smells to me. Could it be MRSA?]
The bacteria is resistant to penicillin-type medications, but can be treated by other, more powerful antibiotic drugs.
City and state health officials say they have been hampered in their efforts to address the growing concerns about MRSA infections because doctors do not have to report cases of the bacterial infection occurring outside hospitals or nursing homes, as they do with certain types of food poisoning and sexually transmitted diseases.
[Oh, they know about all those PERSONAL issues, but they can't control a bug that lives where they are?
Yup, know ALL ABOUT the kid's sex habits, the sickos!]
New York State education and health officials yesterday sent a joint advisory by e-mail to more than 5,000 schools, including schools in New York City, with recommendations for preventing staph infections. The recommendations included a 17-page appendix of cleaning products known to be effective against the bacteria that cause the infection.
[??]
In recent weeks, reported MRSA cases have cropped up in schools around the New York metropolitan region. Students at two separate schools in Longwood, in Suffolk County, were discovered to have the infection by members of the nursing staff, who were told a month ago to watch out for the symptoms, said Michael R. Lonergan, the deputy superintendent.
[Stinky dirty nurses, too.
Combined with the STDS, this sounds more like a pornographic film!
Maybe this is where the kids got the STDs?]
In New Jersey, school officials in Point Pleasant, in Ocean County, brought in infectious disease experts to address concerns from about 100 parents at a meeting on Monday after a high school student who had been out sick with skin lesions was found to have the infection. The district’s four schools have been sanitized with a hospital-grade cleaning agent in the last week.
At I.S. 211, Brooklyn school, Isaiah Peeples, 13, a student there, after a school assembly yesterday:
“I was a little scared. [The principal, Ms. Simmons-Peart] was on the verge of tears . It was a sad moment.”
Bobby Dewindt, 12, another student:
“The principal told us to take a good shower and make sure you’re not dirty."
[What the hell does this all mean?
That the kids are stinky, dirty, and unclean?
WTF has HAPPENED to America?
When did we become such a shithole society?]
