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Where does the figure of 5000 deaths due to MRSA each year come from?

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Where does the figure of 5000 deaths due to MRSA each year come from?

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This figure is incorrect. It comes from a very rough estimate of the number of deaths which may be attributed to all hospital acquired infections (HAI), not just MRSA. The estimate was made in 1995 by a working group of the Public Health Laboratory Health Service. It used an estimate of the percentage of deaths associated with all HAIs made in the United States in the 1980s (1% of all deaths in the US). This percentage was applied to the total number of deaths occurring in the UK, yielding a crude estimate of 5,000 deaths from HAI.