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Saturday, 05 December 2009 21:05 |
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RLJ could have checked the HPA website and found that the number of cases of MRSA in July-September 2009 in the English NHS was 237, or less than 80 per month. This is less than half a case per hospital per month, out of the millions and millions of people treated by the NHS. Many of the patients who are reported as having MRSA already have the infection before being admitted to hospital.
So your chances of catching MRSA in hospital are literally millions to one. Chances of dying from it are even less.
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