Tulsa Jail inmates have possible MRSA infection
By DYLAN GOFORTH World Staff Writer on Aug 6, 2013, at 6:31 PM
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Her biological father from Oklahoma and her adoptive parents from South Carolina spent several hours Monday and Tuesday on the sixth floor of the state's Kerr office building, where the Court of Civil Appeals meets in Tulsa.
A cause of the fire is under investigation.
The Tulsa Jail's medical unit is treating six inmates who have what is believed to be MRSA, a strain of staph bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics, Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Capt. Billy McKelvey said.
The inmates, all of whom had been housed in the same pod at the jail, were discovered to be possibly suffering from MRSA on Monday, McKelvey said.
"All the individuals were moved to the medical unit, and sample tests were sent off to see if it is MRSA," McKelvey said. "We're treating it as MRSA now, but we hope to know for sure by tomorrow what exactly we're dealing with."
McKelvey said issues such as MRSA can spread through the jail when an inmate doesn't disclose the infection to the jail nurse and then shares clothes or shoes or makes skin-to-skin contact with another inmate.
McKelvey said the afflicted inmates have be placed in individual medical cells. Jail staff respond to the issue by spraying down door handles, keys and other commonly touched items with a substance called Staph Attack, which the jail began using in 2006, he said.
Local
Her biological father from Oklahoma and her adoptive parents from South Carolina spent several hours Monday and Tuesday on the sixth floor of the state's Kerr office building, where the Court of Civil Appeals meets in Tulsa.
A cause of the fire is under investigation.
