Child victims of superbug on the rise
13:02, 22 March 2004
A HEALTH organisation is claiming the number of children contracting a superbug in hospitals has shot up.
The Health Protection Agency says the number of youngsters under the age of 15 contracting the MRSA infection went up twenty-fold between 1990 and 2000.
But Doctor Mahdi Chandrakumar, head of health protection for Kent, told KM-fm patients should not be unduly worried...
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