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The Office for National Statistics reported 1, 629 MRSA-related deaths in England and Wales during 2005, indicating a MRSA-related mortality rate half the rate of that in the United States for 2005, even though the figures from the British source were explained to be high because of " improved levels of reporting, possibly brought about by the continued high public profile of the disease " during the time of the 2005 United Kingdom General Election.

MRSA is thought to have caused 1, 652 deaths in 2006 in UK up from 51 in 1993.