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Hospital Acquired Infection

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Hospital officials are scrambling to contact the parents of almost 1,000 babies who may have been exposed to tuberculosis at a Kaiser maternity ward in San Francisco. We take a look at efforts to reduce hospital acquired infections including MRSA.

Guests:

Dr. Masae Kawamura, director of TB control at the San Francisco Department of Public Health

Betsy McCaughey, founder and chair of the Committee to Reduce Infectious Deaths and former lieutenant governor of New York State

Elaine Alquist, California state senator representing San Jose and Silicon Valley and sponsor of a bill mandating that California hospitals report infectious diseases

Dr. Stephen Parodi, chair of infectious diseases at Kaiser Permanente

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