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Hospitals Ramp Up Screening for Superbug

Four Chicago facilities will test all new patients for the staph infection

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 30, 2007 6:16 PM CDT

(Newser) – Four hospitals in the Chicago area will start screening all patients for drug-resistant "superbug" bacteria, the Chicago Tribune reports. The intensive screening is known as "search and destroy" in Europe, but it is uncommon in the US. The moves comes as hospitals around...   Read full story »

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