Rate Of “Health Care-Associated” Infections Drops, CDC Report Reveals.

the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report Thursday revealing that the rate of bloodstream infections stemming from a central line dropped “by 50% from 2008 to 2014.” Infections acquired where surgeons “made incisions also fell, including 2% for colon surgery and 17% in operations in which doctors remove the uterus through the abdomen.” Between 2011 and 2014, the “rate of antibiotic-resistant MRSA fell by 13%” and “infections of C. difficile. ..fell by 8% during the same period.” Unfortunately, “the USA made no progress in preventing catheter-related urinary tract infections, which can develop in the thin tubes inserted into the bladder,” USA Today adds. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/03/rates-some-hospital-acquired-infections-fall-50/81266110/