Colorado MRSA wrestler case isolated

Link: The Longmont Times-Call.

The Longmont High School student infected with a drug-resistant strain of staph appears to be an isolated case, principal Rick Olsen said Tuesday. Colorado health departments do not collect data on staph infections, as they do with illnesses such as West Nile virus, and Nisha Alden of Boulder County Public Health said she had not heard of any other cases. “It is something we don’t have a lot of data on,” Alden said. The Longmont High student, who also is a wrestler, was hospitalized Friday and diagnosed Monday with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, school and district officials said. The student was improving Monday but Olsen had not talked to the student’s mother on Tuesday, the principal said.