{"id":2895,"date":"2007-11-02T06:17:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T14:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/11\/gambling_with_the_odds_of_fate_trying_to_get_over_superbug.html"},"modified":"2007-11-02T06:17:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T14:17:35","slug":"gambling_with_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/gambling_with_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Gambling With The Odds Of Fate Trying To Get Over Superbug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bug of the hour has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/advance\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1194006647279030.xml&#038;coll=1\">an air of great power<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The MRSA &#8220;superbug&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;. . . 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,&#8221; Wagner President Richard Guarasci wrote to parents.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bug of the hour has an air of great power: The MRSA &#8220;superbug&#8221; 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}