article_snippet: Four patients have been infected with an antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' linked to a type of medical scope that is used on more than a half-million people in the U.S. every year.
article_snippet: Four patients have been infected with an antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' linked to a type of medical scope that is used on more than a half-million people in the U.S. every year.
article_snippet: UCLA and Cedars-Sinai said infections occurred at the hospitals despite cleaning the devices to the manufacturer's standards.
article_snippet: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said The U.S. Food and Drug Administration received reports of 135 patients in the U.S. who may have been infected by contaminated scopes between January 2013 and December 2014.
article_snippet: On February 19, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration alerted hospitals with a safety warning that even with thorough cleaning, the risk of infection may persist, according to CBS News.
article_snippet: CBS News has acknowledged that the design of the scopes can make them hard to clean, but CBS News said pulling them off the market would deprive patients of 'this beneficial and often life-saving procedure.'