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Howard goes on superbug offensive
Michael Howard has claimed that Labour was responsible for the spread of the MRSA superbug through hospitals.
In a speech in Kent on Thursday the Tory leader claimed that thousands of people die "needlessly" each year from hospital-acquired MRSA infections.
"Do you remember the British disease? It described Britain's economic and industrial weakness when the trade unions were out of control. The last Conservative government cured it," the he said.
"The new British disease is the superbug in our hospitals which it is estimated kills at least 5,000 people a year."
Responding, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: "If MRSA is the new 'British disease' the Tories were the carriers.
"It was the Tories who carried the superbug into hospital wards across the country by cutting and privatising cleaning services."
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