FIRE-EARTH Conference: Pathogens from Hell

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FIRE-EARTH Conference: Surgical Superbus colonizing medical devices

Background: Healthcare-associated Infections (HAI)

The HAI Prevalence Survey, published In 2014, described the burden of HAIs in U.S. hospitals, and reported that, in 2011, there were an estimated 722,000 HAIs in U.S. acute care hospitals (see chart below). Additionally, about 75,000 patients with HAIs died during their hospitalizations. More than half of all HAIs occurred outside of the intensive care unit. –CDC

[The actual figures may be twice as many. Additionally, the estimated post hospitalization death toll could be as high as 150,000.]

“Global Rise in Human Infectious Disease Outbreaks,” a study released in 2014, examines the global changes in the frequency of outbreaks of infectious disease between 1980 and 2013. Some 12,102 outbreaks of 215 diseases were covered, with 44 million individual cases in 219 countries.

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