Nurse killed by new strain of superbug had just given birth


A nurse in her thirties who contracted a deadly new strain of MRSA at a hospital in the West Midlands was infected during an emergency Caesarean and died within days of her baby being born, The Independent has learnt. The hospital at the centre of the outbreak, caused by a toxic strain of the superbug known as PVL-producing MRSA, was identified yesterday as the University Hospital of North ...