[steve86]

this article strikes me as unduly alarmist, almost sensationalist.

Only alarmist if you interpret it as a threat to any one specific individual - the danger to you or me personally is probably slight at this time. But to the population and the medical system it is real and tangible. Think of the hospital in the article closing a surgical ward due to just one case. What if every hospital had 3 or 4? This outcome is not hypothetical, it is inevitable, unless an effective antibiotic or some other treatment is developed. And I can reasonably avoid most AIDS exposure but not this.

[Old Professer]

As harsh as it sounds, if a hospital has multiple cases of one type of infectious disease the only prudent thing to do is to mive them all in together to prevent the disease from spreading to the staff and general population.