Link: PittsburghLIVE.com.
Allegheny County Jail and Health Department officials say they do not know how many other inmates have suffered staphylococcus aureus infections similar to those that killed two women inmates March 21, but they intend to find out.
"I don’t know why it hasn’t been (tracked) in the past, but we’re going to do it now," said Warden Ramon Rustin, who took over as warden in October.
A day after the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that an inmate and his attorney notified jail officials about an outbreak of staph infections months before the women’s deaths, the Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board announced it is setting up a panel to review health practices at the jail and how it reports infectious diseases.
Common Pleas Judge Kim Berkeley Clark said Tuesday that representatives of the jail, the county Health Department, the county solicitor’s office and other officials are being asked to form the panel to find ways to prevent further outbreaks.
