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How our hospitals unleashed a MRSA epidemic

Superbug on the march Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonies from a Seattle hospital patient grow in a blood agar plate at a local lab. The white areas around the colonies indicate where MRSA infection is attacking and destroying the red blood cells.

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