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Hospital sanitation: MRSA endemic

A number of reports suggest a hospital is the last place one would wish to be when ill. The National Audit Office (NAO) estimates 5,000 deaths a year occur from infections contracted while in hospital, with a further 100,000 patients suffering nonillnesses contracted on the wards.

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