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Suarez says, “The numbers are sobering.” He
continues, “The federal government estimates that each
year about 100,000 people die in the U.S. after acquiring
one or more infections during their stays at a hospital.”
Can you even imagine 100,000 preventable deaths
actually occurring in America each year? This number
is inconceivable to me, but if there is an ounce of
accuracy here, this gross negligence ought to be
regarded as criminal.
The death toll from the 911 terrorist attack in New
York, was roughly around 3,000. That one massive
attack shook up our nation and the world. Now, if my
calculations are accurate, it would require terrorists
repeating 911 about every 11 days to equal the number
of the alleged deaths caused by hospital workers in a
single year.

Of course, they would have to do the same thing
all over again each year to keep up with the reported
annual death toll caused by our hospitals. So, who are
America’s real terrorists? Then again, that’s a whole
other story.
There have been a number of investigative news
reports, all adding up to the same thing. The fourth
major cause of deaths among Americans, behind heart
disease, cancer and strokes is hospital infections.
Infections resulting from unsanitary hospital
conditions and unsanitary hospital personnel take
more lives yearly than fires, automobile accidents and
drowning combined.
The fact that handwashing saves lives is not exactly
“Breaking News.” More than 150 years ago, Dr. Ignaz
Semmelweis, a greatly accomplished Hungarian born