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| Dangerous Skin Disease in MA Prisons |
| By United Press International |
| Published: 11/21/2005 |
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Inmates at several Massachusetts prisons and at least one officer have been diagnosed with a potentially dangerous skin infection, the Boston Herald reports. The newspaper said the officer transmitted the infection to his young son. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causes skin lesions and can be fatal. The infection is resistant to most antibiotics. The state prison in Shirley has had at least 16 cases this year. "It looks like you got hit with a blow torch. It's like these huge, open weeping sores that won't heal," a officer at the prison said. "A lot of people are afraid -- inmates and officers." The infected officer worked at Shirley. The infection has been reported in 68 inmates in prisons and two county jails. Steve Kenneway, head of the union representing corrections officers, said inmates with the disease should be quarantined. |
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