7th Patient Dies From Superbug at NIH Hospital

A seventh patient who received care at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., has died from an antibiotic-resistant strain on Klebsiella pneumoniae, according to a Washington Post report.

 

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The patient is the 19th individual to contract the infectious disease after the outbreak, which occurred at the hospital last summer.

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