February 23, 2018
The pipes carrying away the effluvia of very sick people are bound to be nasty, dirty places. But just how unwholesome they are is made clear in a new report showing that the pipes beneath a hospital intensive care unit are a throbbing, seething hookup zone for antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Source: LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-hospital-pipes-superbugs-20180206-story.html
