Safe Care Campaign
Co-founder of Safe Care Campaign, based in Smyrna, Georgia. Her son, Joshua, died of a hospital-acquired infection in 2006.
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Victoria Nahum
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FROM Victoria Nahum
To the Point
When a Hospital Is a Dangerous Place to Be Despite widespread alarm, the risk of infection by the Ebola virus has been virtually non-existent in this country so far. But 75,000 people die every year from homegrown infections contracted in hospitals -- more than from car crashes and gunshots combined. One astonishing reason: the failure of doctors to wash their hands.
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