Hospital Infections Raise Health Concerns

Hospitals around the world are taking measures to prevent the spread of super-bugs and hospital-acquired infections like MRSA - the antibiotic resistant bacterium. Healthcare professionals estimate that around one in ten hospital patients worldwide suffer from these infections and of those, thousands die. In 2007, more people in the United States died from MRSA than from AIDS, according to the Centers for Disease Control. As Cinnamon Nippard reports, these increasing numbers of superbugs pose a serious threat to humans and healthcare systems around the world.

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