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| PA County to Track Resistant Diseases |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/09/2006 |
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Pennsylvania's Allegheny County Health Department will soon start tracking an infection that doesn't respond well to antibiotics. The health department is asking pediatricians to start tracking methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureas -- also known as MRSA. The infection, which gets its name from the antibiotic methicillin, is mostly found in hospitals, nursing homes and jails, but health workers fear it is moving into the general population. Two female inmates at the Allegheny County Jail died of the infection last year, and more than two dozen officers and inmates were found to be sick with it then. But there have been other reports of the infection among high school football players and others who are in close contact, and health officials want to know how widespread the infection is. |
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