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spreading from hospitals into the community at unprecedented rates.
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These new super germs--stronger, more elusive and deadlier--have multiplied for decades inside thousands of hospitals
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But, increasingly, microorganisms survive for days, even months. And they have developed the ability to breed most anywhere.
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Victims developed strains of pneumonia, blood poisoning and dozens of other infections rarely identified outside hospitals as recently as five years ago.
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spurred by a long-standing practice to rapidly treat patients with antibiotics but not invest in the more time-consuming efforts to locate the sources of germs, federal studies show.
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ided by cost-saving strategies to discharge patients quickly. In the 1970s, the average stay was about seven days for most patients. Today, stays at most hospitals average three days,
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Most infections are not detectable during the first three days after exposure, so doctors commonly flood patients with antibiotics, even when they're not sure an infection is present. Health-care researchers cite this practice as one of the chief culprits behind the rise in drug resistance.
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