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27 Feb 2015 02:22

The Centers for Disease Control is worried about an increase in the number of people contracting the potentially deadly bacteria C. difficile. C. difficile is usually found in hospitals, but a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine said that 150,000 people who had not been in a hospital came down with C. diff in 2011, and 82 percent had visited a doctor's or dentist's office in the 12 weeks before becoming ill, CNN reports. Nearly half a million Americans are infected e...
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