INFECTION AWARENESS AT SCHOOL.

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Sepsis, an extreme reaction to infection that spreads via the bloodstream, kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people in the U.S. annually--more than AIDS, breast and prostate cancers, and stroke combined. Yet fewer than half of Americans have heard of it. New York Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan (D) worked with a foundation run by the family of Rory Staunton, a 12-year-old who died of sepsis after a fall at school, to develop legislation that creates a sepsis...

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