Ontario: C. difficile outbreak at St. Catherines hospital

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Re: Ontario: C. difficile outbreak at St. Catherines hospital

Source: http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/Art...aspx?e=3329613

C. diff outbreak could be over soon, despite another death Tuesday
By Grant LaFleche, Standard Staff
Updated 4 hours ago

ST. CATHARINES - As the Niagara Health System announced the 36th Clostridium difficile outbreak patient death Tuesday, its interim chief of staff said she is rebooting her review of all the fatalities.

Dr. Joanna Hope said she recently received new criteria to assess C. difficile patient death cases. She was already reviewing each case to determine what role C. difficile played and to date had released the results of 12, determining a C. difficile infection was the cause of death in only three cases...

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Re: Ontario: C. difficile outbreak at St. Catherines hospital

Source: http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/Art...aspx?e=3344628

C. diff, VRE outbreaks declared over
By QMI Agency
Posted 1 hour ago

The Niagara Health System has just announced that the Clostridium difficile outbreak at the St. Catharines General Hospital is over.

Also today, an outbreak of Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) was declared over on Unit C at Greater Niagara General Site in Niagara Falls. This outbreak was declared Friday, Oct. 7.

NHS officials announced the news at a media briefing at the Ontario St. urgent care site.

In all, 102 people contracted c. difficile at NHS sites. Of those, 69 became sick at the St. Catharines hospital...