Saturday, July 28, 2007

A scary fact on health


"The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected this year that one of every 22 patients would get an infection while hospitalized — 1.7 million cases a year — and that 99,000 would die, often from what began as a routine procedure. The cost of treating the infections amounts to tens of billions of dollars, experts say"

-Swabs in Hand, Hospital Cuts Deadly Infections

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