Gambling With The Odds Of Fate Trying To Get Over Superbug

The bug of the hour has an air of great power:

The MRSA “superbug” infection that led to the death of a 12-year-old in Brooklyn last month is now showing up in schools and other public settings on Staten Island.

A Wagner College student came down with MRSA and a high school student at St. Joseph by-the-Sea has been rumored to have a drug-resistant strain of the infection, though officials at the Huguenot school have not confirmed that case.

A Wagner College spokesman confirmed yesterday that a student at the Grymes Hill campus had been diagnosed last week with MRSA, which often manifests as a skin infection and is resistant to most, but not all antibiotics. Officials there issued a campus-wide e-mail recently and mailed a letter to parents stating that a student had been found to have had the infection.

“. . . The student has responded well, and though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not require or even recommend community notification where there is a single, isolated case of MRSA diagnosed, we believed it prudent to share this information,” Wagner President Richard Guarasci wrote to parents.