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Schools act to halt staph infection
Districts scrub facilities, launch efforts to raise awareness of deadly germ
Capital Region schools are disinfecting their buildings in the wake of a Virginia teenager's death and a federal study that focused national attention on the deadly "superbug" that killed him.
The culprit, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is a type of staph infection resistant to antibiotics.
On Thursday, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School sent a student home after she told a school nurse she had been to the doctor for an infection that could be MRSA. Custodians cleaned the classrooms where the girl had been and the bus she took to school along with locker rooms and bathrooms, Superintendent Jim Schultz said. After school, the entire fleet of buses was cleaned.