Hourly Update

Bisbee wrestling team asked not to attend upcoming meet due to health concerns

The Bisbee High School wrestling team will not compete in this weekend's Douglas Invitational due to health concerns after one of the team's wrestlers was exposed to staph bacteria during a meet in Safford two weeks ago. Bisbee Athletic Director Walter Edge said the school's wrestlers have been cleared by a doctor but were asked not to attend the meet because Douglas feared liability concerns if the infection spread. "All the doctors and everyone else said we were OK (to compete)," Edge said. "But if the shoe was on the other foot, I'd probably do the same thing. "If you get it, its a bad deal. From what I understand, there is more than one strain of it." Staph infections are caused by a Staphylococcus bacteria, and can result in everything from lesions and boils to eventual death. Bisbee's team was exposed to Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a more-dangerous strain that resists common antibiotics. Read more about this story in Saturday's Arizona Daily Star.