Patients with feared superbug shed large amounts of it from their skin, study says

(By Helen Branswell for STAT)

New research on a frightening new superbug confirms what scientists have both suspected and feared: Some hospitalized patients who carry the fungus shed large amounts of it from their skin, contaminating the environment in which they are being treated and leaving enough of it to infect others later on.  Continue reading article here…

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