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Quebec Health Minster Philippe Couillard says that the province’s hospitals are doing their best to control MRSA, an infection that is resistant to most antibiotics, and can be deadly to people with damaged immune systems. Five thousand cases were reported in 2004, resulting in an unspecified number of deaths. Couillard told reporters that improved infection-control procedures had kept the “superbug” from getting out of control, and that studies to improve the system would continue.
