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Resistant Bacterial Infection Outbreak At California Hospital

puddingebola writes From the article: "A potentially deadly "superbug" resistant to antibiotics has infected seven patients, including two who died, and more than 160 others were exposed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center through contaminated medical instruments, the hospital revealed. The drug-resistant superbug known as CRE was likely transmitted to the Los Angeles patients by contaminated medical scopes during endoscopic procedures that took place between October 2014 and January 2015, a university statement said. " UCLA says the infections occurred via contaminated endoscopes that were sterilized according to the manufacturer's specifications. (Note: beware autoplaying video ad; adjust your volume accordingly.)

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  1. Re:Anyone wonder why this isn't hitting Wyoming? by riverat1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Literally the only reason we are doing this is because the democrats are running out of US citizens that actually want to vote for them. So they're importing voters and pretty much breaking every rule on the books to do it. I'm not saying that if you're a democrat that you're a scummy person. You're probably my neighbor and I'm not mad at you. But the people pushing this at a high level are scummy people. They're used to buying elections and since that isn't working as well as it used to they're importing voters. Its pretty disgraceful.

    [facepalm]Oh good God! [/facepalm] If non-citizens are voting in any significant numbers how hard can that be to prove? The Bush II administration made it a point of emphasis with the US Attorneys and they didn't find much. Instead we have Republicans pushing voter ID laws that fall most heavily on low income citizens (legal voters) who otherwise have no need for that kind of ID. They're desperate because they know the demographics are turning against them.