Today's USA Today has an article on the problem of C. difficile in US hospitals. You can read the article
here. To be sure, C. diff is a big problem in US hospitals. However, I fear that we could follow the MRSA path to control. That is, instead of addressing the tough issues that control will require--better usage of antibiotics and assiduous attention to hand hygiene--we'll instead be forced into strategies that sell products for big companies. And we may even allow industry to convince lawmakers to create laws that create a market for their products. Only time will tell...
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