An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that MRSA kills more than 19,000 Americans annually, which is more than succumb to AIDS every year, despite the fact there are only 90,000 MRSA infections per year and over 1 million Americans infected with HIV.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
MRSA More Deadly Than AIDS
Bloggernista covers the story which has been freaking people out all week. There's a more deadly bug out there than HIV, and this time it's not sexually transmitted and it's a bacteria: methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, colloquially known as MRSA or "staph infection."
Labels:
AIDS,
health care,
HIV,
MRSA,
news,
public policy
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