Many patients now worry, with reason, that if they end up in hospital they may get a nasty bug.

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One nasty bug inhabiting American hospitals, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is linked to 18, 650 deaths each year, a 2007 study concluded.

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It was particularly targeted at an especially nasty bug called Staphylococcus aureus.

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Only when I developed empathy for my local employees, thanks to numerous stomach conditions, nasty bed bug bites, and asthma from indoor air pollution (from cook-stove smoke), did I begin to make some progress at work.

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