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: Instapundit.comDAVID HYMAN: ?Only Two Things Scare Me: And one of them is antibiotic resistance.? ?Antibiotic re?
By Glenn Reynolds
DAVID HYMAN: “Only Two Things Scare Me: And one of them is antibiotic resistance.” “Antibiotic resistance is a major public health problem. Every year, two million Americans acquire bacterial infections in the hospital, and 70% of those infections are resistant to at least one antibiotic. MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staph aureus) has attracted the most media attention: the CDC estimated that MRSA caused 94,000 life-threatening infections, and 18,650 deaths in 2005.”
Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).
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