Staph Infection At Arkansas High School
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Updated: April 17, 2007
Carpet is being pulled up in an Arkansas school district, and it`s not because of remodeling.
Mountain Home Public Schools are powerwashing and re-carpeting floors in the weight room at Mountain Home High School after at least 12 athletes and a coach contract staph infections around Spring Break.
That weight room is now open again, but school officials have instituted new rules, including the sanitation of equipment after every use.
According to the Arkansas Department of Health and Human services, increasing numbers of staph infections have appeared across the natural state over the past ten years.
Staph of the skin will look like a spider bite or a boil, and can become infected.
The infected area may also be warm or painful to the touch.
Staph infections are not spread through the air, but are transmitted through touching contaminated objects.
