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SOURCES: Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/ncidodThe Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, http://www.hospitalinfection.org

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See the white specks in this dish? It's staphylococcus,tiny bacteria that cause a big problem in US hospitals—staph infections.

Gary Noskin, M.D.:

Staph infections have the potential to be very serious. When the Staph bacteria gets in the blood, there's a very high mortality rate associated with that type of infection.

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Doctor Noskin is an infectious disease expert at Northwestern in Chicago. He studied data on staph infections from hundreds of hospitals around the country.

Gary Noskin, M.D.:

One of the important messages from our study is that, number one, Staph infections are common. They accounted for at least one percent of all hospitalizations in the United States. Number two, they're costly. The cost to U.S. hospitals is in excess of 9-billion dollars.

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He's calling on healthcare professionals to do all they can to stop infections. Patients can also protect themselves.

Gary Noskin, M.D.:

Of course, the most important is to make sure that the doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers taking care of you are washing their hands.

Alrighty, I'll see you this afternoon.

Gary Noskin, M.D.:

In patients who are undergoing surgical procedures, it's important that you get an antibiotic prior to the surgery and at the right time.

Narrator:

Staph bacteria can live in a healthy person's nose or on the skin. Once they enter a cut or wound, infection can set in.

Gary Noskin, M.D.:

It is critically important that these infections be treated in a timely manner.

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Noskin estimates that staph infection kills 12-thousand people every year. Reason enough to take prevention very seriously. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.

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