I know I've already covered this briefly in other threads on here, but I seem to recall tales of the MRSA 'superbug' that was reportedly plaguing hospitals, care homes, etc being a big thing back in the 2000s, and often a highly politicised issue, in particular in the run-up to the 2005 GE, with the Blair govt getting it in the neck big time over it all.
Since the late 2000s (from around 2006 onwards), it kind of petered out as a hot (political) topic, and has barely received the same intense media attention that it did during the early-mid 2000s.
I really wonder what happened with MRSA in the sense that the media hardly ever seems to make a song and dance over it anymore. Surely it didn't simply vanish under the Tories, despite their mammoth furore over it when in opposition, which, as a big panic issue, seemed to go south post-2010, in a similar sense to their infamous 'Broken Britain' slogan.
One of the reasons I'm currently musing on this particular issue is because my mom is about to be admitted to a care home, even though the aforementioned MRSA horror stories in the media some 15-20 years ago hardly seem to figure these days.
What does anyone think?
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