Dr. Tara Palmore, left, an epidemiologist, and Dr. Julie Segre, a geneticist, helped bring under control a series of deaths caused by a spreading 'superbug' germ. Six people died in 2011 from infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center outside Washington.
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Dr. Tara Palmore, left, an epidemiologist, and Dr. Julie Segre, a geneticist, helped bring under control a series of deaths caused by a spreading 'superbug' germ. Six people died in 2011 from infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center outside Washington.

Hospital fights germ war

By Lauran Neergaard
The Associated Press

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WASHINGTON –
Over six frightening months, a deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics spread in the nation’s leading research hospital. Pretty soon, a patient a week was catching the bug.

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