Actually, much of the news coverage was based on a single bloke running a lab out of his back garden.
All the positive tests for MRSA from things like doorhandles, windowsills etc came from his lab, and couldn't be replicated in real labs.
This isn't to say it's not a real issue, which does kill people and is dealt with seriously, but much of the media circus was based on a single phoney.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 18:31, archived)

Ah, that's interesting, I din't know that
I was saying a similar argument with the report 11 years ago with autism being caused by mercury, and how (as far as I know, more might have been released) nobody could replicate this, and how the only girl who got compo was the girl with the mitochondrial disorder.

Got to love the media.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 18:35, archived)

This probably explains it better than I did.
www.badscience.net/2005/11/how-many-microbiologists-does-it-take-to-change-a-tabloid-story/
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 18:43, archived)