An article published on MSN.com highlights a recent focus on the hygiene practices of the medical care community and its effect on infection rates in hospitals, where MRSA has long been a problem. As has been found in other studies, author Trevor Thieme of Best Life notes that dangerous bacteria can be carried by medical staff and passed on to the patient with sometimes adverse results. For example, when scientists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, analyzed the hands of 66 nurses, they found that those with wedding rings had 10 times more bacteria than those without. "Bacterial infections are the leading cause of death in American hospitals; about 98,000 people die from them each year," says Dr. Soden. "That means you can contract a secondary infection at the hospital."
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