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Schools fighting MRSA bacteria

Last Update: 2/28/2008 11:17 am

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(TULSA, Okla.) November 8 - A Tulsa elementary school student is in the hospital fighting the MRSA infection.

The student attends Columbia Elementary School, one of the eight schools in Tulsa with reported cases of the superbug.

From inside the classroom to outside on the football field, school officials are making sure they kill the MRSA bacteria. They're spraying the football field with a substance that will likely kill any of the bacteria on contact.

"We're treating everything, interior and exterior. Track surfaces, doorknobs, light fixtures. Just anything in the interior buildings will be treated", says David Feedback. “It's a weekly process. Every five to seven days we will spray."

And they are using "Sani-Guard" to fog and disinfect class and weight rooms.

"They have asthma, allergies, anything that goes on at that school they bring home. Any kids of viruses, they bring home." Ellen Gibbs has two kids at Eugene Field Elementary School and says she's happy something is being done, but with the cleaning comes more fear.

"I don't think they need to use the foggers without notifying parents, because of the children that have allergy and asthma and other medical problems."

Problems school administrators say parents shouldn't worry about. They say these products are citrus based and hospital grade and shouldn't cause anyone problems.

Spraying for the MRSA bacteria is something the school district says they will do for the next five days. If there is a reported case of MRSA, they will spray that particular area until they are sure that everything is okay.

For more information on how to protect your family from MRSA, just click on the MRSA link.

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