Hong Kong’s elderly care homes are a hotbed of the superbug MRSA, with close to a third of residents found carrying it in a new study, spurring calls for the institutions to improve infection control.
The study, published in the latest issue of the Hong Kong Medical Journal, found that about 30 per cent of elderly people at residential care homes in Kowloon City carried Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a superbug common in Hong Kong.
MRSA can cause severe problems...
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