Doctors Say Superbug Can Be Controlled

February 7, 2007

(AP) -- Hospitals can successfully tackle the alarming spread of a dangerous and drug-resistant staph infection with an aggressive program to immediately identify and quarantine patients carrying the superbug, infectious disease doctors said at a conference Tuesday.

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