Super-bugs in the News Again

August3

A Killer on the Loose


From the article:

Doctors at UCLA’s flagship hospital were baffled: A healthy 40-year-old woman had fallen deathly ill after a routine procedure.

A long black scope had been threaded down her throat to treat troublesome gallstones. Now antibiotics were powerless to stop a raging infection.

Her physicians called in Dr. Zachary Rubin, the hospital’s director of clinical epidemiology and infection prevention, and its top disease detective.

There was a mention in the comments about the following link…

Heartburn Help

http://www.heartburn-help.com/4-25-98.htm#10.%20Unclean%20Instruments%20by%20Steven%20Finch..%20Responses%20by%20others

http://graphics.latimes.com/superbug/

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Posted August 3, 2015 by Sue Says in category Health

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