Reports of drug-resistant bacterial infections in schools have members state wide concerned, and NYSUT is responding with a new training program and informational CD through its Education & Learning Trust. There has been widespread media coverage of MRSA — Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — a type of bacteria resistant to certain antibiotics that has been dubbed the “superbug.”The United Federation of Teachers, NYSUT’s affiliate in New York City public schools, reported that a seventh-grade student in Brooklyn died in mid-October.  Several more MRSA cases have been diagnosed in city schools. In Syracuse, nurses are on “high surveillance” after several confirmed cases of MRSA, according to school nurse Ann O’Hara, a member of the Syracuse Teachers Association and NYSUT’s Health Care Professionals Council. Read more…