Take the case of Josiah Cooper-Pope, a baby born 15 weeks premature, who died from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in the neonatal unit at 17 days old. No one at Chippenham Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, told Josiah’s mother, Shala Bowser, that her son was the 4th newborn to die from MRSA. Records show 8 other babies were sickened by the superbug – nearly every baby in the unit – before the outbreak had run its course.
Yet, Josiah’s birth certificate listed the cause of death as “Sepsis due to (or as a consequence of): Prematurity.”
Sepsis is a complication of the infection, but MRSA was listed nowhere on the certificate.
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