Another student has been diagnosed with staph infection, this time in east Georgia. The student attends Augusta State University. School officials say the staph is a skin infection on his leg, and that it's not serious. Nationally, health experts say infections are becoming more difficult to treat because they're resistant to penicillin. The disease is called MRSA. "MRSA itself in a wound is not something that should panic the whole community," says Dr. Charlotte Price, chair of Augusta State's nursing department. "We do watch it, though. The thing about MRSA is it is in our community now. At some point it was just primarily patients in the hospitals." MRSA can be treated with antibiotics other than penicillin. A spokeswoman for Augusta State said employees there had cleaned and disinfected the student's classrooms since his diagnosis. For more information about staph infection, how to treat it, and how to protect yourself from it, go to www.cdc.gov.
