'Superbug' a Growing Problem Outside Hospitals
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NEW YORK  - An antibiotic-resistant germ is  increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise  healthy children and adults.
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The government is launching a proactive fight to tackle MRSA and other hospital infections.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA, statistics show.
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MONTREAL - Infection rates from 2003 indicate the Clostridium difficile bacterium may be more widespread in Quebec hospitals, and more deadly, than previously thought.
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Hospital superbugs are unleashed inside a bunker to explore how the infections are spread.
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A report from the W.H.O. warns that new infectious diseases are emerging at an âunprecedented rate.â
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Many people are not being treated properly for a common illness that is a silent killer, a watchdog says.
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WASHINGTON : World Health Organization and US medical experts warn that the increasing ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics threatens the existing arsenal of drugs against dangerous infectious diseases.
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Experts fear an infection caught by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan will invade civilian hospitals
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Drug-resistant staph infections are scary. But theyâre nothing new.
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Testing all new hospital patients for a dangerous staph "superbug" could help wipe out a germ that likely kills more Americans than AIDS, consumer advocates say and early evidence suggests.
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By Sean Poulter  A SUPERBUG similar to MRSA which affects thousands of hospital patients has been found in farm animals and meat.
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More than 130 million gallons of illegal overflow have landed in the streets and rivers of suburban Maryland over the past two years, putting residents at risk of diseases.
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Hospitals can stem the alarming spread of a dangerous and drug-resistant staph infection by screening new patients and keeping them quarantined, say doctors who tried this novel approach.
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Many infectious diseases have been eradicated in Europe but new infections and drug resistant microbes pose a new threat, a new EU report presented Thursday in Stockholm showed.
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The MRSA superbug has played a part in 116 deaths in Northern Ireland in the past seven years, figures have shown. Nearly three quarters of those deaths occurred in the over-75 age group.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called C. difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA.