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PUTNAMVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A flu outbreak at a western Indiana prison that killed one inmate and has sickened nearly three dozen others is caused by the same swine flu strain that caused a global pandemic several years ago, state officials said Tuesday.
Officials also said the 35-year-old inmate who died Friday at a Terre Haute hospital after falling ill at the Putnamville Correctional Facility was also infected with the so-called superbug MRSA — the staph infection methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
That, combined with the influenza virus, “added fuel to the fire” when the man became sick last week and his condition deteriorated quickly, said Michael Mitcheff, chief medical officer for the Indiana Department of Correction. Preliminary autopsy results released Monday had suggested the man, a Mexican national who had been at the prison since last May or June, had died from pneumonia.
Indiana prison flu outbreak has killed 1, sickened dozens
MRSA. That right there is a nightmare.
Officials also said the 35-year-old inmate who died Friday at a Terre Haute hospital after falling ill at the Putnamville Correctional Facility was also infected with the so-called superbug MRSA — the staph infection methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
That, combined with the influenza virus, “added fuel to the fire” when the man became sick last week and his condition deteriorated quickly, said Michael Mitcheff, chief medical officer for the Indiana Department of Correction. Preliminary autopsy results released Monday had suggested the man, a Mexican national who had been at the prison since last May or June, had died from pneumonia.
Indiana prison flu outbreak has killed 1, sickened dozens
MRSA. That right there is a nightmare.
