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Our American hospitals, dangerous places?

Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Despite widespread

alarm, Ebola for most Americans has been a virtually non-existent risk so far. But 75,000 people

die every year from homegrown infections in hospitals, more than from car crashes and gunshot

combined. One reason the failure of doctors to wash their hands and antibiotics

are over-prescribed, which creates resistant bacteria. The CDC has known the problem for years

and there are easy solutions is Obamacare providing a crackdown. Today's talking point,

public outrage in Mexico, has it reached a tipping point. First, here's the news.

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Program Fund. Hello again, Warren. I'll be back with To the Point. When two nurses in a Dallas hospital contracted Ebola, it was a wake-up call for an ongoing problem. One out of every 25 patients admitted to hospitals in the United States every year picks up a deadly homegrown infection because of the failure to follow standard procedures. We'll hear more about

that. Today's talking point, missing students, mass graves, and political corruption have led to

public outrage from Acapulco to Mexico City. Will forcing a state governor to resign ease the

explosive tension or is it too little too late? First, this news update, Casey Hickox, a nurse who

treated Ebola patients in West Africa, has been quarantined in New Jersey, even though she has no

symptoms of the disease. Now she'll be allowed to return home on a private plane to Maine, where

local health officials will be in charge. Josh Dossie covers New Jersey for the Wall Street Journal.

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