Woman killed by MRSA superbug - Daily Post North Wales
Link: Woman killed by MRSA superbug - Daily Post North Wales.
A PENSIONER who survived one hospital superbug died from another. Olive Swift Chard, 81, of Nant Mawr Road, Buckley, was admitted to Wrexham Maelor Hospital last year with pneumonia. A Flint inquest heard yesterday that she suffered from ischaemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and had not been well for a number of years. North-Eeast Wales coroner John Hughes said she had refused a pneumonia vaccine and had been treated with various antibiotics which would have reduced effectiveness in the future. Tests last November 12 showed she had the hospital bug Clostridium difficile (Cdiff), for which she was successfully treated. But she contracted MRSA about a week later. She died in hospital on December 7 of broncho-pneumonia MRSA. Mr Hughes recorded a verdict of accidental death.
is messer airborn?
Posted by:joe madman | Friday, 09 May 2008 at 21:00
It can be - although skin to skin contact is thought to be the main cause of infection
Posted by:MRSA Watch | Monday, 12 May 2008 at 08:33