The number of people dying due to MRSA and Clostridium difficile fell sharply last year but the superbug infections were still responsible for 30,000 deaths in five years, figures show. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the number of death certificates mentioning C. difficile fell by 29 per cent between 2007 and 2008, to 5,931.
This is the first year that mentions on a death certificate have fallen since records began in 1999. The number of death certificates mentioning MRSA — methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus — also fell by 23 per cent over the same period, to 1,230, the second year running that mentions have fallen.
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