{"id":10538,"date":"2025-10-15T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10538"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:48:21","slug":"we-can-stop-deadly-hospital-outbreaks-so-why-arent-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/15\/we-can-stop-deadly-hospital-outbreaks-so-why-arent-we\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can Stop Deadly Hospital Outbreaks &#8212; So Why Aren&#8217;t We?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/117941?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2025-10-14&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;zdee=gAAAAABm4uVVa0noffRIJqPd2rsKKgBm5ZURWXfuJljHxkA5SxaiDrFhpdNSLVuatrcndghIUJbdB8i3tZ00Sf5MYAfngC1RuyQP-n6FrYFzvROxn-4_blA%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%20-%20Randomized%202025-10-14&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">MedPage Today<\/a> Aaron Young was a patient in a California hospital undergoing a routine procedure investigating the source of his pancreatitis. He needed an exam using a duodenoscope &#8212; something&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/reprocessing-reusable-medical-devices\/infections-associated-reprocessed-duodenoscopes#:~:text=Additional%20Resources-,Background,500%2C000%20ERCP%20procedures%20each%20year.\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"more than 500,000 Americansopens in a new tab or window, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 500,000 Americansopens in a new tab or window<\/a>&nbsp;undergo each year. But what should have been safe turned serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The duodenoscope used on Young was contaminated. He developed a severe, antibiotic-resistant infection and spent multiple months in the hospital receiving treatment.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/widening-superbug-outbreak-raises-questions-for-fda-manufacturers\/2015\/03\/05\/008c981a-c2e0-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"His storyopens in a new tab or window, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">His storyopens in a new tab or window<\/a>&nbsp;mirrors those of hundreds of other patients &#8212; all part of hospital outbreaks that, in 2016, prompted a Senate investigation and a report entitled&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/dem\/newsroom\/press\/scopes-murray-releases-new-report-following-yearlong-investigation-of-outbreaks-in-washington-state-and-nationwide\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Preventable Tragediesopens in a new tab or window, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Preventable Tragedies<\/em>opens in a new tab or window<\/a>. That report detailed how more than 250 drug-resistant infections and multiple deaths went unrecognized until long after they occurred, and it called for systemic changes to prevent similar outbreaks in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPage Today Aaron Young was a patient in a California hospital undergoing a routine procedure investigating the source of his pancreatitis. He needed an exam using a duodenoscope &#8212; something&nbsp;more than 500,000 Americansopens in a new tab or window&nbsp;undergo each year. But what should have been safe turned serious. The duodenoscope used on Young was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10539,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions\/10539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}