These can affect the skin, heart, brain, lungs, bones and joints, and most of them land people back in the hospital. A lot has been done to curb infections in hospitals and attention is shifting to what happens after patients leave. The study involved more than 2,000 patients at hospitals in southern California who were found to carry MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. A year later, 6 per cent of those in the deep-clean group had developed a MRSA infection versus 9 per cent of the others. It’s worth it for patients to do whatever they can to prevent an MRSA infection, he said.

Source: National Post February 13, 2019 22:04 UTC