MRSA and other deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria are no longer confined to hospitals – the terrifying truth is, they are everywhere
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10-year-old boy living in Louisiana developed a cough, earache and fever. By the next day his fever had risen and his breathing had deteriorated and he was taken to hospital. Less than 48 hours later, he died from pneumonia.
Three weeks after, a 14-year-old boy, also from Louisiana, was taken to hospital with flu symptoms. Two days later his breathing problems got worse and he died from severe pneumonia.
children were among six in Louisiana and Georgia to have died from pneumonia last winter for the same reason. The illness that claimed their lives was caused by the "hospital superbug" MRSA, aka methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Swedish superbug worries doctors
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A rapidly spreading bacterium that is resistant to common antibiotics is worrying doctors in Sweden.
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