Swine Flu Breakout on Rikers Island

Source: wcbstv.com

Four inmates at Rikers Island have been confirmed to have the swine flu and four more are considered probable for the virus, Mayor Michael Bloomberg confirmed Tuesday morning.

“Correction and health officials are monitoring the situation and preparing to implement additional health screening and where needed, isolation of ill inmates,” Bloomberg said. “It is in some senses easier to control because obviously the prisoners can’t leave on the other hand, it is also a confined area where we really don’t have the choice of moving people out and asking them to stay home.”

Corrections Officers’ Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook has suggestd since Friday that inmates and staff from the Ann M. Kross Center, as well as the North Infirmary Command, be transferred to other jails until the city completes a full investigation. Seabrook has called on the city to immediately close any facilities where swine flu has been discovered so they can be thoroughly cleaned.

Prison Outbreak? 4 More Have Swine Flu At Rikers

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