GPs on alert for killer MRSA in nurseries, schools and the gym - Daily Mail 20th January 2008

Monday, January 21, 2008

Family doctors are being put on high alert for cases of a flesh-eating strain of MRSA that thrives in nurseries, classrooms and gyms. GPs will for the first time be given detailed guidelines on how to diagnose and treat the highly-infectious bug, thought to be even deadlier than the version sweeping through hospitals. The risk is so serious that the Health Protection Agency and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy have come together to draw up the advice, designed to stop the bug running riot across the UK as it has in the U.S.

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