U.S. deaths from deadly drug-resistant staph may surpass deaths caused by AIDS

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

CHICAGO -- More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported Tuesday in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.

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