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proud2BlibKansan

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Sun Sep 16, 2012, 01:57 AM Sep 2012

KPC Kills 7th Person At NIH

BETHESDA, Md. -- A deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics has killed a seventh person at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland.

He was the 19th patient at the hospital to contract an antibiotic-resistant strain of KPC, or Klebsiella pneumoniae. The outbreak stemmed from a single patient carrying the superbug who arrived at the hospital last summer.

The paper reported the Minnesota boy's case marked the first new infection of this superbug at NIH since January.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/15/kpc-klebsiella-pneumoniae-death_n_1887054.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

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KPC Kills 7th Person At NIH (Original Post) proud2BlibKansan Sep 2012 OP
Reminds me of Soderbergh's "Contagion" longship Sep 2012 #1
K&R Mnemosyne Sep 2012 #2

longship

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1. Reminds me of Soderbergh's "Contagion"
Sun Sep 16, 2012, 05:34 AM
Sep 2012
Contagion

Soderbergh got the science right in this one. He also got the ethical dilemmas right. A disturbing, but good flick. Unfortunately, it has Matt Damon, but he doesn't harm it much given that wooden acting at least does not detract.

Not a great flick, but recommended nonetheless. Especially since it gets the science right.

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