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What will it take to reduce infections in the hospital?

  • Written by Sanjay Saint, Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan
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Ebola. Zika. Superbugs resistant to antibiotics.

The headlines brim with news of infectious threats. Our lawmakers just battled over more than $1 billion in funding for Zika, the mosquito-borne virus that has caused serious birth defects in at least nine babies born in the U.S. and has been...

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