Govt. gene sleuths stop superbug that killed 6
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 13:31
in Health & Medicine
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Over six frightening months, a deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics spread in the nation's leading research hospital. Pretty soon, a patient a week was catching the bug. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health locked down patients, cleaned with bleach, even ripped out plumbing - and still the germ persisted....