Hospitals must work together to prevent superbug spread, CDC says

A new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that better nationwide infection control and antibiotic stewardship could prevent 619,000 healthcare-associated infections with antibiotic resistant superbugs such as Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), pictured here.Superbugs -- germs that have evolved to become resistant to antibiotics and other medical treatments -- are on the loose, infecting more than 2 million people in the U.S. every year and killing at least 23,000.

But a new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that coordinated efforts to combat antibiotic-resistant infections could reduce the number of…