Petrie dish with MRSA culture behind thumbs-up hand painted as Norway flag'MRSA is a scourge in virtually all modern hospitals in every industrialized country, with the exception of Norway. While tens of thousands of American and European patients die each year from MRSA, it's a rare occurrence in Norway. How are they doing it? In the most simple of ways. In Norway, the problem was faced head-on. The cause—overprescription of antibiotics—was acknowledged. So they stopped overprescribing.
People didn't start dying from lack of antibiotics, but they did stop dying from MRSA.'
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