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American Friends of Tel Aviv University
Reducing epidemic proportions
December 2nd, 2008
Hospitals are supposed to be havens for healing, but the numbers tell a different story. Too many people are infected by illnesses they acquire after they've been admitted, and hospital-related infections continue to be the number-two killer of hospitalized Americans after heart disease. Now, a radical new high-tech software program developed by Tel Aviv University researchers to fight these infections is now catching on faster than the flu. Prof. Yehuda Carmeli from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University has developed a security system for preventing hospital epidemics. Integrating basic sanitary procedures, his system uses the tools...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-12-02)
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