Yesterday it was announced that 19 patients in Alabama hospitals were infected with serratia marcescens bacteria after being administered contaminated intravenous fluid. Nine of these patients have died.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/03/29/alabama.hospitals.deaths/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Read here about serratia marcescens: http://web.mst.edu/~microbio/BIO221_2004/S_marcescens.htm
