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Will Boggs writes that not only do some hospital patients become infected with superbugs, their visitors can take the infection home with them. Antibiotic-resistant staph infections are now frequently found outside hospitals.

Dr. David P. Calfee studied 172 personal contacts of 88 patients who got superbug infections in the hospital. 25 of them carried the same superbug, including one person who had only casual contact with the patient.

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It?s getting almost as dangerous to go to the hospital as it is to stay out of it, because there’s been a huge jump in the amount of dangerous bacteria that’s resistant to antibiotics that has been found in hospitals here and abroad. In the U.K. last year, 41% of the hospital Staph infections were found to be resistant to conventional antibiotics. Microbiologist Hugh Pennington says, “?These bugs are building up steam. We’re slowly being pushed back.”
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