Student's death from staph infection gets attention

Brooklyn, New York medical authorities are probing the death of a 12 year-old after the cause of death was pegged as due to a staph infection. As a result, there is a scare throughout NYC's school system of a possibility of more infections (or deaths).

The particular strain of staph in this case, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is actually responsible for more deaths each year than the virus that causes AIDS, and tracking how those who have the infection contracted it continues to be increasingly difficult for the medical establishment.

Fatal staph infections in children are "in the order of 1 in a million" according to a source. Those a long-shot odds, and finding a way to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections continues to be a fight for biologists and geneticists. Who said medical technology is cutting-edge? In some cases, yes. In others, we're still clueless.