Jail offers Flesh eating victim slack care?
A former Riverside County inmate says he was left permanently disfigured and disabled by jail medical employees who he claims delayed treating him as flesh-eating bacteria infected his right arm at the Indio jail in 2004. Glen M. Smith is one of several people nationwide whose cases of necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating bacteria, mutated from the unrelated, severe staph infection widely known as MRSA. Infectious disease researchers started seeing such cases around 2003. No one knows why some cases progress into flesh-eating bacteria. And no one at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention knows how many community-acquired MRSA cases -- those that occur outside hospitals and nursing homes -- develop into flesh-eating bacteria because the federal agency doesn't require state health care officials to report MRSA cases.
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