Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas Quarantines ICU Due to Superbug Outbreak

An antibiotic-resistant microbe known as acinetobacter has infected six patients at St. Joseph’s Mercy Health Center in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Four of those infected are patients in the Intensive Care Unit.
Doctors observed an “unusual cluster” of acinetobacter infections in the ICU, and instituted a quarantine at 9:30 p.m. on November 1, 2007, Fox News [...]

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