It's hard to believe. The chances are only 50-50 that the doctor treating you in the hospital, even when performing your surgery, has washed his hands. The odds are the same as flipping a coin. Actually it's worse than that. According to researchers, hand-washing compliance rates at hospitals are generally less than 50 percent. Methicillin-resistant staph aureus, or MRSA, is the strain of a once-innocuous staph infection that has become invulnerable to first-line antibiotics and kills more people every year in Canada and the U.S. than the AIDS virus and in the majority of cases is contracted in hospital settings.

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