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Nov 12 2007
MERSEYSIDE’S largest hospitals are failing to meet government targets for reducing MRSA – with some recording twice as many cases as ministers expected them to....
Nov 12 2007
THE potentially lethal MRSA bug has become one of the biggest crises to affect the health service, mainly because it has developed a resistance to certain antibiotics and is therefore much more difficult to treat....
Nov 6 2007
LIVERPOOL Women’s Hospital has increased patient checks for MRSA and set up a helpline for worried parents after the killer superbug was found on four babies....
Nov 5 2007
LIVERPOOL Women’s hospital was put on MRSA alert after the killer superbug was found on four babies....
Nov 2 2007
A YOUNG woman who spent six weeks unconscious and suffered kidney failure after a doctor failed to spot she had appendicitis has survived major surgery, only to be told she has MRSA....
Oct 26 2007
AN ELDERLY woman who was admitted to hospital for a stroke died after contracting MRSA and having her leg amputated, an inquest heard....
Oct 16 2007
A SUPERBUG tsar has been hired to stamp out infections like MRSA and C difficile at two Liverpool hospitals....
Jul 25 2007
CASES of the deadly superbug C difficile have risen dramatically in many Merseyside hospitals according to figures released last night, with several trusts seeing their highest figures since records began....
