{"id":493,"date":"2014-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/fungus-believed-to-cause-numerous-deaths-transported-by-linens\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:12","slug":"fungus-believed-to-cause-numerous-deaths-transported-by-linens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/fungus-believed-to-cause-numerous-deaths-transported-by-linens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fungus believed to cause numerous deaths transported by linens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though people realize that hospitals are filled with numerous infectious diseases, not many people in Oneida think too much about hospital-acquired infections. The problem is, however, that approximately 75,000 people die each year because of infections they caught in hospitals, at least according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This also means that there are far more people who get sick, need to extend their hospital stays or otherwise suffer damages yet survive hospital-acquired infections.<\/p>\n<p>It is just as much a hospital&#8217;s responsibility to prevent contamination and infections as it is a surgeon&#8217;s responsibility to perform procedures according to standard medical practice or a nurse&#8217;s responsibility to administer the correct dosages of medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/hospital-malpractice.html\">Hospital malpractice<\/a>&nbsp;may not seem like a serious threat, but it certainly can be.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in a recently covered outbreak out of New Orleans, five young patients died after they were infected by mucormycosis, a fungus. It appears that the fungus was in the hospital linens on which the children slept, which has prompted an investigation into how a hospital could use unclean linens.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/fungus-believed-to-cause-numerous-deaths-transported-by-linens\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Fungus believed to cause numerous deaths transported by linens\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though people realize that hospitals are filled with numerous infectious diseases, not many people in Oneida think too much about hospital-acquired infections. The problem is, however, that approximately 75,000 people die each year because of infections they caught in hospitals, at least according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This also means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-negligence","tag-hospital-negligence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fungus believed to cause numerous deaths transported by linens &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; May 8, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fungus believed to cause numerous deaths transported by linens - Hospital Negligence - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/fungus-believed-to-cause-numerous-deaths-transported-by-linens\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fungus believed to cause numerous deaths transported by linens &#8212; 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