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The Centre for Health Protection has cautioned the public to be vigilant against community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - a drug-resistant bacteria.
The appeal was made after the centre confirmed 24 infections last month.
The cases involved 16 males and eight females aged two to 84. All cases were sporadic and no further person-to-person transmission occurred.
Twenty-three of the patients have recovered while an 84-year-old man with chronic disease died. He developed respiratory symptoms on August 13 and was admitted to a private hospital in Kowloon on the same day. He died August 19 of pneumonia and his own chronic illness.
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