By Richard Knox Each year nearly 300,000 U.S. patients get serious cases of pneumonia and sepsis -- bloodstream infections -- during their hospital stays. Almost 50,000 of them die. Pneumonia and sepsis make up a large fraction of hospital-acquired infections
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