Stay out of hospitals.

They're full of sick people.

Worse, increasing numbers are full of sick people with superbugs- antibiotic resistant germs which are remarkably hard to cure, and often disfiguring and/or fatal.

These little guys have been around for quite a while, of course. The trouble is that they're not only getting more resistant, but they're increasing both in their capacity for thriving despite conventional treatment and in the number of resistant species out there. Doctors blame patients who insist on getting (futile) antibiotic treatments for viral infections which antibiotics don't treat, anti-bacterial soaps, over-treatment of legitimately bacteriological infections which would go away on their own with drugs which should be reserved for more serious cases,and other foibles of modern health and hygiene for killing off the weaker members of the species, leaving the stronger and harder to kill to bear the next generation

ABOVE: This pretty-looking organism is MSRA-methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus-, which kills more people annually than HIV. A full 20% of those who contract MSRA die from it. Like other super-bugs, it is often contracted in locker rooms and other every-day environments as well as in hospitals.

The problem is that MSRA and its bacteriological bretheren seem to like to hold family reunions, conventions and the like in medical environments. Maybe they're thumbing their little noses at us.