Stop the spread of drug-resistant infection!

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Consumer Reports' President Jim Guest

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Stop the spread of drug-resistant infection!

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Debbie,

 

If you must go into a hospital, do you ever expect to get a

life-threatening infection there? That is exactly what happens to two

million Americans every year - one in every 20 patients - and 90,000 of

them die.

 

Many of these infections are now resistant to anti-biotic treatment and

spreading into the community from their origins in hospital settings.

You may have read about this growing problem in the latest issue of

Consumer Reports magazine.

 

<http://cmet.cr-mail.org/data/13995667/Key=2343.DWXP.C.CmjxQs> You can

help stop hospital infections in your community by demanding information

about your local hospital's infection rates and prevention practices.

 

Hospitals keep their infections secret from everyone, even though

infection rates are on the rise. Healthcare workers wash their hands far

less than they should, particularly in critical areas like intensive

care, surgery, anesthesia and the emergency room.

 

Making infection rates public will help you find out about the safety

record of your local hospital and will give hospitals a strong incentive

to more seriously deal with this costly and dangerous problem.

 

You can help give consumers in your own community better information

about hospital-acquired infections by signing a simple petition.

<http://cmet.cr-mail.org/data/13995667/Key=2343.DWXP.C.CmjxQs> We hope

that more than 100,000 people will sign in the next few weeks so we can

deliver a serious message across the nation.

 

After you have taken action, please forward this on to your friends and

family and ask them to join you in saving lives.

 

Sincerely,

 

Jim Guest

Executive Director

Consumers Union of the U.S.

101 Truman Ave.

Yonkers, NY 10703

 

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