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MRSA Infections Continue to Go Unreported

By Dianne Finch on Friday, November 23, 2007.

That nasty staph germ known as M-R-S-A or MRSA is in the spotlight again.

Public alarms sounded nationally after three children died from MRSA infections last month - including a 4-year-old from New Hampshire.

She may have picked up the bug at school.

Those stories typically make headlines.

But what rarely makes news is that far more people---tens of thousands---pick up MRSA infections at healthcare facilities

In New Hampshire - a law passed last year requiring hospitals to report infections publicly.

But that law wasn't funded - and it doesn't require reporting MRSA infections.

NHPR's Dianne Finch has more.