Study: MRSA can follow you home from the hospital

(HealthScout) UPDATED 2009-08-10

More than 12 percent of people discharged from hospitals have been infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), researchers say, and about 20 percent of them may transmit the organism to others in their house. Read full story >

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Study: MRSA can follow you home from the hospital

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