Superbugs Cause Infections In At Least Two Million People In The US Annually, And Kill 23,000, CDC Data Suggest

reported that “many thousands of Californians are dying every year from infections they caught while in hospitals,” but one would not know by looking at “their death certificates,” as “California does not track deaths from hospital-acquired infections.” The Times pointed out that “University of Michigan researchers reported in a 2014 study that infections – both those acquired inside and outside hospitals – would replace heart disease and cancer as the leading causes of death in hospitals if the count was performed by looking at patients’ medical billing records...rather than death certificates.” http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-torrance-memorial-infections-20161002-snap-story.html