Thursday, December 16, 2004

Troops Bringing Drug Resitant Bugs Home from Iraq

Wounded soldiers coming home from Iraq are bringing along an epidemic of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection to military hospitals. It's not happening with troops coming from Afghanistan -- just Iraq. Doctors and the CDC are debating if the suberbugs are being produced by antibiotic use or they're unique qualities of the strains infecting the troops. (Al's Morning Meeting)

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