Whether you live in a prison or jail, or you work in one, think about items that are handled or shared from one person to the next without washing, like clothes, towels, handcuffs, or even weights and sports equipment. This direct contact and sharing can allow bacteria like MRSA and other staph to spread.
Lack of handwashing: Another condition that can lead to spread of MRSA and other staph is lack of handwashing. MRSA and other staph can be removed from your hands by washing with soap and water or by using a hand sanitizer. The best way to prevent skin infections, and many other infections, is to wash your hands frequently. Daily showering is helpful to remove bacteria from the skin. Wearing shower shoes can protect your feet from bacteria and fungi as well.
When prisoners contact staph infections if they are not treated for it, it will spread fast to others, guards included. People feel prisoners don't need medical care inside the prisons because of our poor medical care on the outside. Millions of Americans do not have insurance and so when they get sick, they also don't get medical care.
However, when a staph infection that is hard to get rid of, and people are actually dying from it, to not give the medication to prisoners and not to give them the cleaning materials to get rid of the bacteria , sooner or later, this problem will not just be in the prisons, but in our own homes.
People with MRSA and other staph skin infections – especially boils or wounds that are swollen and have pus – can most easily spread staph to others. It is particularly important that the infected area be kept covered. Any bandages should be disposed of appropriately. Sharing personal items like towels should be avoided. Handwashing should be a high priority.This past week we've had cases in our schools in Nashville. Schools were closed so that they could be washed down and cleaned.
In New Jersey, Point Pleasant Boro High School was reopened after cleaning crews sanitized classrooms, locker rooms and other parts of the school after a student had been diagnosed with the drug-resistant bacteria infection, MRSA.
In the past week, three students have died of the communicable infection.
A Richmond high school student and a Vaile elementary student told administrators they believe they have staph infections, Superintendent Allen Bourff said.
If confirmed, the latest cases would bring the Richmond Community Schools cases to three, after a high school football player on Tuesday told his athletic director he had the infection. The player and the other high school student were treated and allowed to return to school.
The nation’s attention was drawn to the superbug after Virginia student Ashton Bonds died on Monday, prompting the closure of 22 Virginia schools, which were cleaned.
It would seem to me that if started giving better medical care in the prisons, and also spent the money to have bleach and cleaning materials available for prisoners to clean their areas, this epidemic would not be hitting our school children. Is it worth it to deny medical care to prisoners when by not attending to them, it's bringing those diseases to our homes, to our children and loved ones.
