Staph fatalities may exceed AIDS deaths
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071017/ap_on_he_me/staph_infections"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071016/capt.48752db1c88544d2973dd1f0901530e9.staph_infections_gfx639.jpg?x=130&y=128&sig=kXYmc1IbSi1LCbMYvKws7A--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="Graphic shows staph infection incident rates by age and race and percentage of infections by incident type; two sizes; 2c x 4 inches; 96.3 mm x 101.6 mm; 1c x 6 1/4 inches; 46.5 mm x 158.8 mm" border="0" /></a>AP - More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported Tuesday in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.</p><br clear="all"/>

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