MRSA Present In Boy Believed Dead From Chickenpox

MRSA Present In Boy Believed Dead From Chickenpox

Monday, December 15, 2008
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Test results released Monday show the presence of the bacteria MRSA in a 12-year-old Daytona Beach boy who county officials thought died from chickenpox.

The boy was a student at Campbell Middle School (see map). The school district is going to start cleaning the school immediately.

The district decided not to wait. All the classrooms the boy was in and all the desks where he may have sat will be disinfected Monday night in an effort to kill the MRSA he may have spread.

Students at Campbell Middle School were carrying around pictures Monday of 12-year-old Cody Shrout.

"I was pretty sad when he died. I started to cry a little bit," friend Andrew Nunez said.

Nunez and others originally heard that Shrout died from chickenpox, but new tests also showed the presence of the bacteria MRSA. The health department, however, didn't want to discuss the possibility of MRSA at the school.

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