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Conan O’Brien Loses His Father 4 Days After His Mother Passed Away

A physician of endless curiosity and talents, Dr. O'Brien was "the most interesting person I’ve ever met," said his son, TV talk show host Conan O'Brien, whose parents both died this week.

Drug-resistant strains of bacteria, viruses, and germs could emerge in far-flung places and hitch a ride on an unwitting tourist, who then headed home and spread the infection thousands of miles away. “Science has said there’s no such thing as perpetual motion, but my father was proof that that was wrong,” said his son Conan O’Brien, the late night TV talk show host and podcaster. Though Dr. O’Brien was best known for his work in antimicrobial drug resistance, “early in his career, he produced the first device” that allowed patients to undergo hemodialysis more than once using the same vein site, Kuritzkes said in his email to Brigham and Women’s colleagues.

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