Monday, October 10, 2005

Inmates Risk New Strains of Infections

This article shows how staphylococcus aureus can be spread....

Mark Stewart is afraid of infecting his fiancee and friends in southern Delaware's network of small, quiet communities.

A 45-year-old convicted drug user, Stewart is a likely carrier of a virulent bacteria called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, which can lead to infection by flesh-eating bacteria. He believes he contracted MRSA inside prison in Delaware, where he spent six months recently on a probation violation.

In that stay behind bars, Stewart was exposed to bacteria by a cellmate who burst his own untreated boils. Soon after, a spot on Stewart's scalp swelled into a bump. ....

"Mark did have an MRSA infection," Dr. Stephen D. Carey wrote in a letter Stewart said he delivered to Robert I. George, the Sussex Community Corrections Center's warden. "He is likely now to be a carrier of that bacteria. The implications of this to your organization are to be determined by yourselves, however, he is again a carrier of the methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection."......

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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