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By Matt Pelkey
Rappahannock News Staff Wnter
Two more students at Rappahannock County schools have been diagnosed with a dangerous type of staph infection, Rappahannock County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Bob Chappell announced last Friday.
One of the two new cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection involves a student at Rappahannock County Elementary School, he said. The student’s diagnosis marks the first instance of MRSA infection at the school, which had previously dodged the staph outbreak that has plagued Rappahannock County High School this month.
Chappell did not provide the names of the diagnosed students, consistent with the schools’ policies, he said.
Chappell said in an e-mail Friday that the school had that day received written notice of the infections from the doctors’ offices that had diagnosed the students.
The school notified between 200 and 300 parents by e-mail on Friday, Chappell said, and elementary school students were sent home with information about the diagnoses on Tuesday.
The students have been treated and are back in school, Chappell said in a phone interview on Monday.
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