SALISBURY, N.C. — Salisbury High School postponed Friday’s homecoming football game after players on the opposing team were diagnosed with a highly contagious infection.
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Salisbury was scheduled to play host to Oak Grove High School, from Winston-Salem.
However, two dozen players on Oak Grove's junior varsity and varsity teams have what is believed to be a bacterial skin infection that can be spread through contact.
Salisbury’s principal said that after consulting with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association and Novant Health, officials decided to postpone the game.
Meredith Littell, with the Rowan County Health Department, said officials are investigating just what the bacterial infection is and whether Salisbury athletes were already exposed to it.
“We were looped in today by Davidson Health,” she said. “We were told there was possible exposure at high school football games, possibly over (the) last week, maybe two weeks.”
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Oak Grove's coach said the infection was discovered at practice Tuesday, and about 25 players are affected.
The entire school is being sanitized and disinfected.
Davidson County School officials said it will take 72 hours to get a culture back to confirm exactly what the bacteria is.
All of Salisbury's homecoming festivities, including the parade and halftime ceremony, will be moved to Friday, Oct. 12.
Salisbury and Oak Grove rescheduled the JV and varsity games to the week of Nov. 9.
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