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    Prison guard can’t sue over MRSA infection

    A Pennsylvania corrections officer has lost her bid to sue prison doctors for failing to warn her that certain prison inmates had a dreaded communicable disease.

    In torpedoing the prison guard’s lawsuit last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to impose a new, affirmative duty on doctors to warn third parties that a patient has an infectious disease.

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