How Washington hospitals unleashed a MRSA epidemic

November 19th, 2008 By Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong

Year after year, the number of victims climbed. But even as casualties mounted - as the germ grew stronger and spread inside hospitals - the toll remained hidden from the public, and hospitals ignored simple steps to control the threat.

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MRSA is good for pharmaceutical companies (and other who get rich from misery), that is why there is no scandal about it... Sick people = good business.

So thousands die from MRSA, no problem. Oh, but we have to go and kill another million to find "weapons of mass destruction". That is a real problem.

Yes, I know, the truth hurts.
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