‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll
Hello.  I work for public health.  My job is to support the computer systems that allow epidemiologists to track 'superbugs' (and regular ones).Deathcerts is an interesting dataset.  It's not the only one.Even if death-by-MSRA isn't tracked, I assure you that MSRA itself is tracked.There's a specific class of lab test called "antibiotic susceptibilities".  The results report includes a bunch of numbers that represent just HOW resistant a particular bug is to a standard battery of antibiotics, broken down per antibiotic.That data is transmitted from the labs that performed the test to the state health department where it is analyzed.Fascinating article, but there's NO WAY that Reuters had that much contact with state public health folks without being aware that they track lab results.  Misleading!Edit: elaborated about the susceptibilities results.