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  • Ontario: two cases of C. difficile at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Hospital, 1 fatality

    Source: http://www.niagaraadvance.ca/Article...aspx?e=3193691

    Two c. diff cases at NOTL
    Both are patients transferred from St. Catharines General
    By Penny Coles
    Posted 5 hours ago

    There are currently two cases of C. difficile at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Hospital.

    Both are patients who were transferred from the St. Catharines General.

    The first person to be transferred was on April 27, and had been confirmed as suffering from c. difficile, says Frank Demizio, the Niagara Health System's vice-president of patient services.

    The second was in June, after the outbreak was declared at the St. Catharines site. That patient was suspected to have the infection but it had not been confirmed at that point.

    Both were kept in isolation when transferred and precautions to prevent the spread of the disease were taken.

    He told the Advance Tuesday that the two patients at the NOTL site were community-related.

    But when questioned again Wednesday, he said both had been transferred from St. Catharines.

    The majority of the patients in the 22 beds at the NOTL Hospital are elderly, with complex conditions, he said, and agreed that those are the patients most vulnerable to c. difficile, which causes diarrhea and has proven deadly in elderly patients with other conditions. But the precautions that have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease at the NOTL site are working, he said?there have been no new cases since the transfer of the two patients.

    The patients were transferred because they no longer needed the acute care they were receiving in St. Catharines...

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    Re: Ontario: two cases of C. difficile at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Hospital

    24 dead in Canada C. difficile outbreak
    Published: July 9, 2011 at 6:59 PM

    Comments (1)EmailPrintListen TORONTO, July 9 (UPI) -- At least 24 people have died in Ontario hospitals during an outbreak of the so-called superbug C. difficile, Canadian health officials say.

    The Globe and Mail reported the Niagara Health System said Friday one patient had died in its Niagara-on-the-Lake facility and two more at its St. Catharines General site, bringing the C. difficile death toll in its seven hospitals to 20.

    The outbreak, which began in May, has claimed the lives of at least four more people in other Ontario hospitals, the Toronto newspaper said.

    ...

    Read more: http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/...#ixzz1RhGIkMIx
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