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MRSA infections declining in health-care settings, CDC reports

Date August 9, 2010

LOS ANGELES — Dangerous infections caused by the bacterium methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, appear to be declining in health-care settings across the nation, the federal government reported Tuesday. An analysis conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a 28 percent drop in cases of MRSA contracted in hospitals from 2005 to [...]