FORT COLLINS, Colo.—State health officials have traced at least three cases of a drug-resistant staph infection to a Fort Collins firefighter training center.
Three recruits who were training at the Poudre Valley Fire Authority center have been diagnosed with the infection, known as MRSA.
MRSA mostly causes skin infections, such as boils and abscesses. But it can sometimes cause life-threatening blood infections.
Poudre Valley Fire Authority spokesman Patrick Love says the center has been cleaned and that managers are taking other steps recommended by health officials.
The Fort Collins facility is part of a regional training system serving departments from Boulder to southern Wyoming.
Departments from Laramie, Wyo., and Greeley pulled their recruits out of the academy after the MRSA diagnosis, and Monday classes were canceled.
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Information from: Fort Collins Coloradoan,
