Wow, this warrants a special post:
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.
By the end, 18 people harbored the dangerous germ, and six died of bloodstream infections from it. Another five made it through the outbreak only to die from the diseases that brought them to NIH’s world-famous campus in the first place.
It took gene detectives teasing apart the bacteria’s DNA to solve the germ’s wily spread, a CSI-like saga with lessons for hospitals everywhere as they struggle to contain the growing threat of superbugs.
CSI, more like those crazy contagion horror films like Outbreak, Contagion, and The Andromeda Strain!
Its one thing to be chased by a guy with a hockey mask and a butcher knife, its another thing to be stalked by a killer you can’t even see or feel! Good work guys at sorting that one out!
