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August 4, 2009
Hospital nurses reveal risks
Hospitals are supposed to be where you go to get well.
But more than a million people a year are getting sick from infections they're picking up in the hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control. And a startling new survey of hospital nurses from Consumer Reports National Research Center reveals cleanliness is a big problem.
Actress Alicia Cole was hospitalized for routine surgery. At the hospital, she contracted a flesh-eating infection.
"I lay there with my stomach progressively deteriorating. I was being eaten alive," Cole said.
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