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" The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has announced that a new strain of hospital bug MRSA has killed a nurse and a patient.  The new strain, Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) MRSA, is normally associated with the community and has never been reported in hospitals before.  At an unnamed hospital in the West Midlands, eight people in total were infected with the disease of which two died.  A statement from the HPA said: &amp;quot;A previously healthy healthcare worker developed an MRSA sepsis, septic shock, pneumonia and died following non-elective surgery in September 2006.&amp;quot;  The patient also developed fatal illness when infected with the strain and died quickly, as the HPA said: &amp;quot;The patient developed a suspected hospital-acquired pneumonia and died within 24 hours of the blood culture being taken that grew the organism.&amp;quot;  In contrast to the more common MRSA strain that targets the elderly and very sick, PVL is said to occur &amp;quot;among previously healthy young people in community settings worldwide&amp;quot;.  Hospitals across the UK are being encouraged to spot the early symptoms of PVL and take samples for investigations, if necessary.  Patients with &amp;quot;boils, furuncles and abscesses&amp;quot; are seen to be most at risk, although the HPA has stated that there is no indication that the strain has become widespread in hospitals. \u00A9 Adfero Ltd "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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