Hospital Hand Sanitizers

Rachael Rettner is a Senior Writer for Live Science who has written information about the hospital superbug. All employees around the world working in hospitals are slathering on hand sanitizer to prevent the spread of any infections. There is now one type of bacteria in hospitals that appears to be very resistant to alcohol-based hand sanitizers. This new study comes from Australia that suggests a bacterium called Enterococcus faecium is already resistant to some antibiotics and a leading cause of hospital infections.

This bacterium has been increasing in recent years, despite the use of hand sanitizers in hospitals, and …read more