All afternoon numerous reports have been forwarded to The Knight Shift about “confirmed” staph infections – and particularly MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) – running loose throughout the Rockingham County Schools system. This is of especially serious concern in light of numerous cases of MRSA that have been confirmed in Forsyth and Yadkin counties. And word is just coming down the wire that a student at George Washington High School in Danville has been diagnosed with MRSA. So what’s going down our way?

I called up the office of Rockingham County Schools Superintendent Dr. Rodney Shotwell earlier this afternoon, to see what he knows. I didn’t get to talk to Dr. Shotwell but a very short while later I got a call from Rockingham County Schools spokeswoman Jean Steverson. And this is what the good lady told me…

There are no confirmed MRSA cases in Rockingham County school ...