MRSA Notes

Sangamon County officials may have to face a large medical bill now that a jail inmate has had surgery to remove an infected abscess in his neck. The county doesn’t know how much the final bill might be, but the cost of postoperative antibiotics alone could be more than 15 thousand dollars if the county [...]

Five employees of a New Jersey correctional facility have brought a lawsuit against the administrators of the jail. From NJ.com: Kent R. Collins, Jerry C. Cora, Thomas J. Duffy, Agostino J. Fare and Beth Lindsay alleged in their lawsuit that the jail’s administration failed to warn them of “possible exposure” to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or [...]

From the people I have spoken with involved in the U.S. prison systems, I truly believe that the staff, as well as the inmates, work harder to prevent infections than they do in our hospitals and medical facilities – well, some of them anyway, I would be remiss to make those broad assumptions about all [...]