Superbug kills 7th person at Md. NIH hospital
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(AP) BETHESDA, Md. - A deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics has killed a seventh person at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland.
The Washington Post reported the death Friday. NIH officials told the paper that the boy from Minnesota died Sept. 7. NIH says the boy arrived at the research hospital in Bethesda in April and was being treated for complications from a bone marrow transplant when he contracted the bug.
He was the 19th patient at the hospital to contract an antibiotic-resistant strain of KPC, or Klebsiella pneumoniae. The outbreak stemmed from a single patient carrying the superbug who arrived at the hospital last summer.
The paper reported the Minnesota boy's case marked the first new infection of this superbug at NIH since January.
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- So, we go to hospitals and clinics to get 'BETTER' but end up catching a fatal disease, and then DIE. Should the clinic be held responsible?
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- As a bone marrow transplant patient, he was most likely very vulnerable to infection of any kind. But it still seems very strange that he should get this superbug 9 months after the previous infection... are they sure the cases are connected/related? How could a bug linger that long in the facility? I think this article needs more information.
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