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nevadamedic
06-25-2007, 09:37 PM
Story Highlights
• Study: Drug-resistant staph may hit 5 percent of hospital, nursing home patients
• New figure is 10 times rate of some previous estimates
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus responds to few antibiotics

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/06/25/staph.infections.ap/index.html

Everytime I hear the word superbug or super flu I think of the Stephen King movie The Stand, which I thin k is one of his best movies. I couldn't stop watching it from the moment I put it in eventhough it's like six hours long, and to this day still makes me tear up at the end.

glockmail
06-25-2007, 09:49 PM
Knock 'em down, make room for some new ones.