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Created: 09/16/2012 10:45 PM KSTP.com | Print |  Email
By: Michelle Knoll

Minn. Boy Seventh to Die from Superbug

A boy from Minnesota is the seventh person to die from the so-called "superbug."
   
The boy got it at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland. The Washington Post reports he was being treated for complications from a bone marrow transplant.

Nineteen people at the hospital contracted the antibiotic-resistant strain of KPC. The outbreak stemmed from a single patient.


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