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| DFW JAILS Screen against Swine Flu |
| By star-telegram.com |
| Published: 05/05/2009 |
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DFW jails ramp up screening to guard against swine flu By DEANNA BOYD dboyd@star-telegram.com FORT WORTH — Medical staffs at area jails are on heightened awareness as officials work to keep the threat of swine flu at bay. As of Monday morning, no cases of swine flu had been identified at Tarrant County Jail, the Fort Worth Jail or the Mansfield Jail, which houses inmates arrested by Fort Worth and Mansfield police. Still, officials say they have ramped up medical screening of arriving inmates and are prepared to isolate and treat ill inmates should the swine flu emerge. "Any kind of flu like this that is contagious could certainly fly right through a jail facility, so we’re taking every precaution we can," said Terry Grisham, spokesman for the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department. Visitation was suspended over the weekend at state prisons, but it has gone on as usual at local jails since physical contact with inmates is prohibited. Tarrant County Jail At Tarrant County’s four jail facilities, nurses conducting routine medical screenings of arriving inmates are on heightened lookout for flulike symptoms, Grisham said. The county’s facilities department will be placing hand-sanitizer stations in visitation areas, and labor detail crews are disinfecting rooms where visitors use phones to speak to inmates separated from them by glass. Inmates who have at least two symptoms — a temperature of over 100.4 degrees F and a cough, sore threat or gastroenteritis — will be immediately sent to the medical unit for further testing, Grisham said. "We’re being aggressive," Grisham said. "We don’t want to take a chance at a facility that has so many people in such close proximity — and not just inmates. We have a lot of employees that have to work in there right alongside them." Dr. Alan Byrd, who oversees JPS Health Network medical care at the county’s jails, said that no inmates had met the criteria for influenza A testing as of Monday morning and that staff had tested one inmate as a precaution. That test came back negative. If an inmate does test positive for influenza A, Byrd said the inmate will be isolated and started on Tamiflu while further testing is conducted by the JPS laboratory. If swine flu is confirmed, medical staff will continue to treat and monitor the inmate to determine whether hospitalization is necessary, he said. Fort Worth Jail At the Fort Worth Jail, where people arrested by Fort Worth police are booked and held until they can be arraigned and transferred to the Mansfield Jail, arrivals are asked a series of questions, including whether they have been to Mexico in the past two weeks and whether they have vomited or had diarrhea in the past 24 hours. Lt. Duane Paul said those who answer yes to any question and whose temperature is higher than 99.7 F must be taken by the arresting officer to JPS for medical review before being let into the jail. Paul said only a handful of detainees had gotten a medical review. As of Monday morning, jail officials had not been alerted to any swine flu cases, he said. Mansfield Jail At the Mansfield Jail, which houses 150 to 250 inmates per day, Mansfield Police Chief Gary Fowler said a few inmates have tried to claim flulike symptoms.Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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