Hospital superbug still a threat - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ie.
The figures for each hospital should be put in context, with larger hospitals that cater for greater numbers of patients with complex illnesses likely to experience more cases of MRSA. Moreover, even where patients are diagnosed with MRSA while in hospital, there is every chance that they could have picked it up before they were transferred, the report pointed out. The latest figures also confirm the continued threat from another superbug, MSSA. There were 470 reported cases of this infection in the first six months of the year. Resistant MRSA is resistant to a range of common antibiotics but doctors treating someone with MSSA have a greater choice of drugs to work on the patient. Both diseases can put a patient's life in danger and the death rate is about twice as high for people infected with MRSA as it is for those with MSSA.
