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Outbreak may be drug resistant
By The Morning Call
Published: 08/23/2007

HARRISBURG, PA - Lehigh County Prison has isolated 10 inmates and sent another to an area hospital with skin infections believed to be the increasingly more common methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA.

''There is a bit of a spike right now,'' Prison Director Ed Sweeney said Wednesday about six cases identified in one general housing unit since Saturday. Normally, he said, four to six inmates have MRSA in the prison at any given time. Read more.

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