Mother and baby contract superbug

A mother and her newborn baby girl contracted the superbug MRSA, a hospital trust has confirmed.

Razvana Ali, 19, was diagnosed with the superbug after the caesarean section at Bradford Royal Infirmary in February.

Mrs Ali, of Little Horton, suspected baby Marwha had caught the same bug when she developed a rash on her body.

A spokesman for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation said: "Cases of MRSA in mums and babies are very rare and taken extremely seriously."

Mrs Ali and her husband Mohammed, 28, want to know why it took more than two months for the diagnosis of MRSA to be made for their baby who was born on 5 February.

The NHS spokesperson added: "It is quite common for babies to develop rashes which can be a symptom of many illnesses.

"As soon as we suspected that baby Marwha had MRSA, we immediately gave her some antibiotics through a drip."