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Cancer trio latest MRSA victims

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in MRSA in Scottish Hospitals

Link: Cancer trio latest MRSA victims – The Herald.

The three men are being treated at the Beatson Oncology Centre at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow after the latest outbreak.
Margaret Esdale, 58, was receiving chemotherapy for oesophageal cancer when she contracted MRSA and died there last Thursday.
Although Mrs Esdale’s cancer was terminal, her husband believes the MRSA infection, given as the official cause of death,

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