MRSA Notes

From Pennsylvania’s The Morning Call Online :

In the year since a federal jury ordered Bucks County to pay $1.2 million to two inmates who contracted flesh-eating staph infections in the county prison, at least 58 more inmates have been diagnosed with similar infections, prompting concerns that more lawsuits will be filed.

Within a week of the jury award, two inmates who complained of symptoms asked to see a prison physician. Both inmates were diagnosed with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a particularly infectious and hard-to-treat flesh-eating disease that first surfaced in the prison in the summer of 2002.

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