Paris Hilton Health Scare: Staph Infections Rampant at Lynwood Jail

Paris Hilton is in jail and behaving according to reports from inside the Lynwood Correctional Facility.  She has her own cell all by herself to keep her safe, but she may have to deal with some serious health issues.  A report claims that the Lynwood Correction Facility is being taken over by a nasty staph infection. 402 inmates were diagnosed last year alone with the infection. That means for every 1,000 that come in 13 will contract it.

Paris Hilton Health Scare: Staph Infections Rampant at Lynwood Jail

Elizabeth Bancroft, an Epidemiologist for The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, spoke with "Inside Edition" about the seriousness of the staph strain that is spreading through out the women’s prison. “MRSA is a kind of staph infection that means it’s resistant to the first line of antibiotics we usually use to treat staph infection,” she continues, “That is the kind that is so prevalent right now or so common in the jail.”

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Bancroft also tells Inside Edition that staph infection can cause serious inflammation and even spread into the blood stream or bone which would then have to be treated by intravenous antibiotics. “If the infection were to get to the blood or bone the first thing people would have would be fever chills and if it got into the bone they would have a lot of tenderness.”

But being separated will help Hilton.  According to the Epidemiologist, Hilton is at a lesser risk than the other inmates of contracting the infection due to her serving out her sentence away from the general population.  "Anyone in isolation will have a less likely chance of contracting staph."