Link: The Press Association: Hospital bug vaccines ‘in 10 years’.
The Government’s chief medical officer will predict that vaccines against two hospital bugs will be available within a decade, when he publishes his annual report on Monday.
Professor Sir Liam Donaldson said immunising patients against MRSA and Clostridium difficile (C diff) would be a "big breakthrough".
He also said more research was needed into why Britain had seen a sharp increase in rates of cancer of the gullet in men. Britain now has the highest incidence of the disease in Europe.
Sir Liam gave a preview of his annual report’s themes in interviews with The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.
The details, confirmed by the Department of Health, include a vaccine against C diff being developed within five years and one against MRSA made available within five to 10 years.
