Under FOI rules i request the below information please:
1, Between January 1st 2012 and the present day, the number of human cases of livestock-associated MRSA, recorded in Wales
2, Any information on specific types of livestock MRSA involved, eg CC398, and any information on how the cases were contracted, clinical signs/illness, and any data on antibiotic resistance associated with the strains/cases
3, Any information on ages of patients, other demographic info, geographical information (county level is fine). And any info on whether patients had come into contact with farm animals (eg worked on farms)
4, The number of deaths in Wales associated with livestock-associated MRSA (if any)
Thank you for your recent request.
Public Health Wales do not hold these data as we don’t differentiate between Livestock-associated MRSA (LA-MRSA) and other associated MRSA such as; community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) and hospital-associated (HA-MRSA).
Public Health Wales is the public health service for Wales and as such is an independent NHS Trust. As an organisation we have no jurisdiction over the activities of Health Boards and other NHS Wales organisations. This means we frequently do not have access to the data that they produce. I have provided contact details for the Health Boards below as they may hold this information. You would need to contact them individually for any information they hold.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/866/page/39187
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/861/page/39134
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
http://www.cardiffandvaleuhb.wales.nhs.uk/freedom-of-information-new
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
https://cwmtafmorgannwg.wales/foi/
Swansea Bay University Health Board
https://sbuhb.nhs.wales/about-us1/foia/
Hywel Dda University Health Board
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/862/page/52085
Powys Teaching Health Board
http://www.powysthb.wales.nhs.uk/freedom-of-information
I am very sorry we are unable to help on this occasion.
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