Superbug: ‘We are winning’

Saturday 7th January 2006, 12:00AM GMT.

JERSEY’S ‘aggressive search and destroy’ policy to combat MRSA is working, with the Island having one of the lowest incidences of the antibiotic resistant infection in Britain, it has been claimed.

Only four out of 106 English NHS Trusts, which manage the hospitals in their areas, had fewer cases than Jersey on a like-for-like basis.

Figures released by the pathology department at the General Hospital show that three people were found to have an MRSA blood infection in the first ten months of 2005.

There were four cases in the whole of 2004.

Dr Ivan Muscat, the consultant microbiologist at the Hospital, said blood infection rates were the best way of comparing the prevalence of MRSA infections.

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