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NEW YORK POST: The killers that even top hospitals just wink at

Worried about breast cancer? Or AIDS? Bad as these dreaded diseases are, hospital infections kill more people yearly than both of them combined. Amazing — something caused by the hospital is so deadly.

BOSTON HERALD: U.S. fiddles while superbug spreads

Ronald Hale went to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Canada last month with a lung problem, but instead of being helped, he was killed by the superbug carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae. The germ, which had been...