The rate of Americans contracting potentially fatal Clostridium difficile bacterial infections in hospitals fell between 2011 and 2017, according to a paper published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed a roughly 24% reduction in infections between 2011 and 2017, though the number of people who died in hospitals from the infection did not seem to change significantly.
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