(NaturalNews) If a jumbo jet crashed into the ocean every single day, it
would roughly equal the number of Americans who die each day following
superbug infections acquired at U.S. hospitals. Far from being some
hyped-up scare story, that's actually the conclusion of none other than
the CDC, which has now publicly warned that 1 in 25 hospital patients gets infected and tens of thousands die each year.
"On any given day, 1 in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection," reports the CDC newsroom.(1)
"The
CDC's 2011 survey of 183 hospitals showed that an estimated 648,000
patients nationwide suffered 721,000 infections, and 75,000 of them
died," reports the Washington Post.(2)
If you do the math, that comes out to 205 deaths per day, on average, in U.S. hospitals.
Keep
in mind that if terrorists were killing 205 Americans per day, every
news network in the country would cover the story 24/7. If airplane
crashes were killing 205 Americans per day, it would be headline news
everywhere, and if vitamins were killing even just 1 person a day, the
entire government would be calling to "ban all vitamins!"
But
when hospital superbug infections result in the deaths of 205 Americans
per day, it is simply another statistic and not treated as a national
emergency. Somehow, the annual death of 75,000 Americans is considered
"business as usual" in a sick-care system that virtually everyone
considers a disastrous failure.
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