MRSA Kills One In 20 Hospital Patients Who Have The Infection

One of every 20 (or 5 percent) of the roughly 368,600 patients treated in U.S. hospitals in 2005 for Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, died, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Most of the patients who died of this highly dangerous antibiotic resistant staph infection were elderly or low income. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on October 25th, 2007