The Federal Prison Camp in Duluth, Minnesota is working to disinfect the prisoner’s exercise areas as they have had 18 cases of MRSA over the summer months.
Morrison said the Minnesota Department of Health was notified as a precaution. He said he believes “this situation remains under control.”
With all of the recent talk about MRSA in prisons, it is very important to remember that prisons are, by no means, the only place you can get MRSA. Staphylococcus bacteria live on each and every one of us, and all it takes is for them to have been in an environment where they have acquired resistance to antibiotics to thrive. This can be your own family, who have not taken antibiotics appropriately, your neighbor, your coworker - we can ALL, pretty easily, get MRSA, so now is the time to get into those good hygiene habits, if you never have before.
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Gloria // Aug 21, 2006 at 10:31 pm
this is also the main problem in all the prisons in the philippines. it is really horrible, all kinds of diseases (skin and internal) are breaking out among inmates. but the sad part is that, “cleaning” them out is the least of the government’s priorities.
Patrick Baymont // Aug 30, 2006 at 9:25 am
As the product manager for Moldstat Plus, an EPA registered disinfectant, I try hard to work with prisons to help them control their MRSA problem. I am amazed at how they do not want to improve their cleaning methods, acting almost offended that I would suggest better chemicals and technology advanced equipment. The old “we’ve always done it this way and it works” is killing people.
Patrick Baymont
pbaymont@theochem.com
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