ICUs see big drop in dangerous staph superbugs

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 02/17/2009 - 15:01

CHICAGO (AP) -- A government report says the rate of dangerous staph infections has dropped dramatically in hospital intensive-care units, a rare encouraging sign about a hard-to-treat "superbug." The report involving nearly 600 hospitals is the largest to document a long-term decline in the level of IV tube-related infections of MRSA, a deadly drug-resistant staph germ....


 

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