‘Superbug’ Scourge Spreads as U.S. Fails to Track Rising Human Toll

MICROSCOPIC MENACE: Potentially deadly multidrug-resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa can infect hospital patients through ventilators and other devices. REUTERS/Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The Uncounted - The Deadly Epidemic America is Ignoring

reuters.com - by Ryan McNeill, Deborah J. Nelson and Yasmeen Abutaleb - September 7, 2016

Fifteen years after the U.S. declared drug-resistant infections to be a grave threat, the crisis is only worsening, a Reuters investigation finds, as government agencies remain unwilling or unable to impose reporting requirements on a healthcare industry that often hides the problem.

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