Scientific American offers a great overview of antibiotic resistant staph infections, also known as “superbugs,” which add risk to any invasive hospital procedure. Consequently, the article leads with a story of a woman who contracted such an infection following a cesarean section, and chronicles her months of painful — and expensive — recovery. The offending bacterium causes 94,000 serious infections in the U.S. each year, resulting in roughly19,000 deaths — more than those caused by HIV, according to a study also published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Read the full article.
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