Hospitals Fail to Take Simple Measures to Thwart Deadly Infections, Says Survey

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Few people check into a hospital expecting to come down with a severe case of diarrhea while undergoing care for an entirely unrelated problem. And even fewer expect to die of the hospital-acquired intestinal infection that causes the watery stools. Yet for approximately 14,000 Americans each year, that is exactly what happens. The culprit is a strain of a spore-forming bacterium known as Clostridium difficile, or C. diff --in particular, a relatively recent strain that has grown more virulent and resistant to drugs.
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