Lethal, Drug Resistant Germ Appearing In US Hospitals.

The Wall Street Journal  (1/31, McCaughey, Subscription Publication) reports that according to announcement from public-health researchers in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology last week, a lethal germ called CRK, which swept through the NIH Medical Center in Maryland, killing six, is appearing in hospitals around the country. According to researchers writing in another journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, CRK, which cold not be contained by infection control precautions recommended by the CDC, poses "a major threat to public health."