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Twenty-five years ago, Norwegians were also losing their lives to [staph infection]. But Norway’s public health system fought back with an aggressive program that made it the most infection-free country in the world. A key part of that program was cutting back severely on the use of antibiotics.
Now a spate of new studies from around the world prove that Norway’s model can be replicated with extraordinary success, and public health experts are saying these deaths - 19,000 in the U.S. each year alone, more than from AIDS - are unnecessary.
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Solution to killer superbug found in Norway: AP News : TheMonitor.com (via quietbabylon)