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CRE virus hits close to home

By Stoney Stone | January 23, 2014

With the January outbreak of the “nightmare bacteria” in a Chicago hospital, local nurses say the superbug influx is becoming an everyday reality.Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, also known as the “nightmare bacteria,” is a bacterial infection...