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When Medical Devices Spread Superbugs

Big Pharma· First Do No Harm: Risks· Follow the Money

31 Mar

 Germs that are resistant to antibiotics are cropping up with alarming frequency at American hospitals. A lethal “superbug” known as CRE infected seven patients at the Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center and killed two of them. The germs were apparently transmitted on inadequately sterilized medical scopes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/opinion/when-medical-devices-spread-superbugs.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

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