Battling nightmare infections: the CDC's plan to beat superbugs

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention are hoping a program piloted in Chicago will help halve the incidence of 'nightmare' infections by so-called antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs.'

(Reuters) — With painstaking effort, a group of Chicago hospitals has managed to cut by half the number of infections caused by an especially deadly type of superbug. Now U.S. health officials want that kind of campaign to go national.

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