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| County says it lacks resources to battle jail infections |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/07/2005 |
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Officials are having little luck battling outbreaks of a drug-resistant staph infection at the Dallas County (Texas) jail. They tell The Dallas Morning News that the potentially dangerous bacterium could spread into the community. For more than a decade, jail health officials have fought thousands of cases of boils and sores on inmates caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- or MRSA. In one recent three-month period, the health workers treated nearly 700 confirmed or suspected cases of M-R-S-A. And it's not just the inmates that are risk. Since February 2002, Dallas County's employee health clinic has treated 123 cases among staffers with the Sheriff's Department. |
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