Snooping around in hospital pipes, scientists find DNA that fuels the spread of superbugs
(LA Times Dodgers)

The pipes carrying away the effluvia of very sick people are bound to be nasty, dirty places. But just how unwholesome they are is made clear in a new report showing that the pipes beneath a hospital intensive care unit are a throbbing, seething hook-up zone for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Even...