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CBS 60 Minutes "Super-Resistant Superbugs"
Infections we thought we had conquered once and for all are coming back because of a new breed of germs that doctors call "superbugs" -- bacteria that are resistant to almost all antibiotics. The latest culprit is called MRSA, a staph bacteria that triggers infections so virulent they can - and have - turned deadly within days. The first doctor in the country to identify MRSA in patients that weren't already very sick in the hospital was Dr. Robert Daum, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago Children's Hospital.“What we noticed that was so different was we were seeing perfectly healthy children come in with serious, severe infections and they were this kind of resistant staph,” says Daum. “And we said, ‘What's going on here?’” .....Continue

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U.S. News & World Report has selected the University of Chicago Medical Center as one of the 18 best hospitals in the United States
Fall 2007