Data supplied to the Ohio Department of Health show above-average rates for drug-resistant staph infections at three Dayton hospitals.
The information shows Good Samaritan Hospital with a rate more than double the state average, and a county health official says Miami Valley Hospital had three people with infections diagnosed over a two- or three-day period.
Grandview Hospital is the third Dayton hospital reporting higher-than-average methicillin-resistant staph infections, known as MRSA.
State health department spokeswoman Jen House says the agency does not analyze the statewide hospital data on MRSA and does not see above-average rates as unusual. The infections start as skin lesions and can lead to pneumonia in the most serious cases.
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