Drug-Resistant Bacterium Spreading, Kills More Than AIDS

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:14 PM EDT

Article Source: The Washington Post

health, aids, cdc, antibiotics, mrsa, methicillin-resistant-staphlococcus-aureus

A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported today.

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