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Winter is coming with its load of gastro and cold particularly virulent amongst children at school. Hydro alcoholic solution when systematically used –though under control for young children – significantly reduce transmission of these

According to a new study, sepsis (blood infection) and pneumonia, two common conditions caused by hospital-aquired infections like MRSA, killed 48,000 Americans in 2006, and cost the nation over 8 billion dollars to treat. Co-author Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan declared that «that in many cases the conditions could have been avoided with better infection control in the hospitals.Infections that are acquired during the course of a hospital stay cost the United States a staggering amount in terms of lives lost and health care costs," said Laxminarayan»

Hospital-acquired infections impose a heavy human and financial burden on patients and hospital as well. A recent McGill University study tend to demonstrate that individual rooms might reduce by half the incidence of these infections. Voir étude de McGill

The american web site «important little facts» gives basic information on these hospital-acquired infections that are a growing source of concern for patients and hospitals.