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Officials at the Muskegon County Jail have scaled back the number of inmates suspected of having a drug-resistant staph infection to 13 from 30. Two or three jail staff members are also believed to be infected.
Signs of infection began showing up at the jail earlier this month. It’s not known whether all of the cases are the potentially fatal methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, but officials said they’re treating them as if they are.
"We know we’ve got some cases of MRSA, and some additional skin ailments of some nature that, though they haven’t been determined to be MRSA, we’re treating aggressively," Undersheriff Dean Roesler told The Muskegon Chronicle for a Saturday story.
