Roswell 17-year-old in ICU with severe MRSA infection

A metro Atlanta high school student is in the ICU fighting a severe bacterial infection.

Mustafa Elhaj is a junior at Centennial High School and loves to play soccer. But he hasn’t been able to play the game that means so much to him in weeks.

About a month ago, Mustafa’s family says he developed a severe MRSA bacterial infection that put him in the ICU. The Mayo Clinic says a MRSA infection is caused by a type of staph bacteria that’s become resistant to many of the antibiotics used to treat it…

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