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CDC targets stubborn germs in hospitals — Newsday.com

U.S. health officials are preparing new hospital infection control guidelines to slow the growing spread of bacteria that has become resistant to antibiotics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will release the new hospital rules within three months, Michelle Pearson, chief of the National Center for Infectious Disease’s prevention and evaluation branch, said in an interview at an infectious disease meeting this month in Washington, D.C. The new rules will intensify sterilization requirements for health workers, increase testing of patients who may harbor dangerous germs, and may call for hospitals to create special quarantine wards.

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