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The Providence Journal, March 6, 2008

A recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that hospital-borne infections are the country's fourth-largest killer. Each year, close to 2 million Americans acquire an infection while in a hospital, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those, almost 100,000 die.

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