Hospital-Related Infection -- United States
In 2016, a mysterious illness spread inside the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center, the U.S. government's most prominent research hospital, in Bethesda, Maryland. Patients were somehow being sickened by an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria that practically never causes disease in humans. Two years later, a new study seems to finally have confirmed where this bug likely came from: the hospital's own plumbing.
During a 6-month period in 2016, 6 patients came down with
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6227736&promed&0
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