To Combat 'Superbugs,' Hospitals Boost Disinfection Techniques

NPR | March 05, 2013 3:20 p.m.

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With the rise in superbug occurrences at hospitals, Audie Cornish talks with Tara Palmore, deputy hospital epidemiologist and infectious disease physician at the National Institutes of Health, about how healthcare facilities are changing practices to help stem the spread of the drug-resistant bacteria.