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		DanBC on June 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Abstinence Method – Dutch farmers say no to an... Any body admitted to a UK hospital is swabbed (nose and groin) for MRSA. I would be interested to see what the ratios are split by where the person was recently living.

arethuza on June 18, 2014 [–]

Interesting, I had no idea they were doing that:

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/MRSA/Pages/MRSAscreeningwhattoe...

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