The Giants are taking all possible precautions after learning that tight end Daniel Fells had contracted a staph infection.
The club’s East Rutherford practice facility underwent a serious housecleaning. Meeting rooms, locker rooms and training rooms were scrubbed. Fells, who was placed on injured reserve on Monday, had been infected with MRSA, a staph infection that is difficult to treat because of its resistance to antibiotics.
The tight end remains hospitalized after the infection was discovered over the weekend, when he was receiving treatment for an ankle problem.
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“We are working with infectious disease specialists and we have defined protocols that we are following in consultation with the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network and local infectious disease specialists,” Giants spokesman Pat Hanlon said Tuesday.
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In search of a tight end to replace Fells, the Giants included several tight ends in their Tuesday free-agent workouts, including Adrien Robinson, who was cut by the team after training camp, and former Patriot Jake Bequette.
The Giants were off on Tuesday and return to practice today, when they begin preparations to face the 49ers on Sunday night at MetLife Stadium. According to the team, there have been no other cases of MRSA, and today’s workouts should be “business as usual.”
“No other cases,” Hanlon said.
NFL teams have worked to take such outbreaks seriously. Ex-Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes, who went on to play for the Buccaneers, filed a $20 million lawsuit against Tampa Bay earlier this year, blaming the club for his contraction of MRSA in 2013 and claiming that it ended his career.
