CNN The Situation Room March 11, 2013 20:54:00
There are about a million to three million hospital acquired infections throughout the year in the united states, about 20% of them are among drug resistant microbes, and in a given year, about 90,000 people die from drug resistent microbes, almost all acquired in the hospital. it is something we need to pay important attention to. >> you say drug resistant microbes, we are vulnerable potentially, how did this develop? is it overuse of antibiotics that has resulted in this? >> it is just that. one of the major causes is inappropriate use of antibiotics where the antibiotics that you give for a...
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