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We've all heard the horror stories - hospitals crawling with super bugs. Patients in for routine surgery who die from dreadful infections. That's bad enough. But even tougher, more sophisticated bacteria are at large in the community. They're everywhere. And the really frightening thing is just how swiftly they can strike. One day, you're quite healthy. The next, you're fighting for your life. Age is no barrier - the old, the young, the very young. There's now solid research that suggests a quarter of all sudden infant deaths could be caused by these super bugs. And in many cases, there's nothing we can do to stop them.

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