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Category: Outbreak Investigations

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A 2015 ‘Superbug’ Outbreak in North Carolina: Were Contaminated Duodenoscopes to Blame?

July 16, 2015 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

June 15, 2015 — The Mountain Xpress, a local newspaper in Asheville (NC), reported earlier this week that two patients died in February at a hospital in North Carolina “from…

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Greenville Health System Settles a Lawsuit Claiming Negligence Caused a Patient’s Infection, Death

July 13, 2015 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

July 13, 2015 — South Carolina’s Greenville Health System has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a surgical patient who died in 2014 from an unusual infection…

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HIGHLANDS TODAY: “Infections, deaths six years ago brought to light in Highlands County, Florida”

March 9, 2015 Lawrence F Muscarella PhD

Highlands Today (March 7, 2015): Infections, deaths six years ago brought to light in Highlands County. This article in Highlands Today provides some new, important details of a nightmarish bacterial…

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