Contaminated IV Fluids Kill Patients in Alabama Hospitals

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

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