Link: brisbanetimes.com.au.
ONE of the world’s most aggressive and potentially fatal superbugs — once found only on hospital wards — has become more virulent and is now infecting healthy people in the community.
A strain of golden staph can lead to serious blood infections or death, and more people are being infected by it.
Experts want the State Government to establish a register to better monitor its growth.
Already a number of people in Victoria have died from the superbug but exact numbers are not known, as the Department of Human Services says it does not hold the data on the number of Victorians infected with community or hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
