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FL Hospitals Don’t Report ‘Superbug’

Health News Florida | By Health News Florida
Published March 6, 2013 at 11:38 AM EST
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Leon County Judge John Cooper on June 30, 2022, in a screen grab from The Florida Channel.

The CDC is sounding alarm bells over the rise of a drug-resistant “superbug” in hospitals across the country; only six states require hospitals to report the infections, and Florida isn’t one of them, McClatchy Newspapers reports. 

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