10/24/1991
10/24/1991 Correctional Officer Peter Petrosino New York State Department of Correctional Services Auburn Correctional Facility – Auburn Correctional Officer Petrosino contacted multi drug resistant and tuberculosis, while keeping guard over four inmates with AIDS and the same strain tuberculosis at the hospital. His duties required him to sit outside the patient’s rooms and to enter the room whenever any health care worker had reason to enter the room. Because the illness progressed in the inmate patients, the rooms became progressively more infectious during the course of treatment spreading the bacteria outside to the hallways when the doors were opened or closed. Fifty health care workers also tested positive for the same drug resistant strain after the outbreak. He is survived by his wife Carmella, son Mark, daughter Michele Whiting and grandchildren Merissa, Nicole, Matthew, Michael, Timothy and Jeffery.