The star of a documentary series that gripped viewers worldwide during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic is now in his own state of quarantine in Texas. Joseph Maldonado-Passage, better known as Joe Exotic of the Netflix series Tiger King , said recently that he is one of 140 inmates at Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth infected with scabies.
Maldonado-Passage told TMZ on Oct. 11 that the prison didn’t have enough medication to treat all of the infected inmates, and that about 300 of them, including himself, were in quarantine.
The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday received confirmation from the prison that one of its housing units had experienced a scabies outbreak…