North Bergen Student Has MRSA Bug

A third-grade student at the Kennedy School was confrmed yesterday to have MRSA, the penicillin-resistant so-called "Superbug."

The student is being treated at Palisades Medical Center, said North Bergen Mayor and Associate Superintendent of Schools Nicholas Sacco.

Notices were sent home to parents yesterday and the third-grader's classroom was disinfected last night, Sacco said.

No classes were cancelled, Sacco said.

Sacco said a staff member at a pre-school in North Bergen was confirmed with a case of MRSA just before Thanksgiving.

MRSA, an acronym for methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus, is by definition resistant to methicillin, part of the penicillin family of antibiotics.

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