'Superbug' takes dive in hospital intensive care

Courtesy Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Tue, 02/17/2009 - 22:31

CHICAGO -- 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."


 

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