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The government is unlikely to meet its target of reducing the MRSA hospital "superbug" by 50 percent by 2008, the Lancet medical journal said on Friday.
A "mops and matrons" approach to cleanliness in hospitals remains a problem even though the number of MRSA infections has fallen by 6 percent since January this year.
"Adherence to hand-cleaning practices rarely exceeds 60 percent among health-care workers," the Lancet said in an editorial.
