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Superbug outbreak ends at three Ontario hospitals: health officials
By Carmen Chai, Postmedia News July 10, 2011 1:46 PM
he death toll linked to a C. difficile outbreak across Ontario has increased, but the number of hospitals battling the superbug is down to seven from 10 hospitals last week, provincial health authorities said Sunday.
At a news conference in Toronto, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said that while St. Catharines General, Greater Niagara General and its rehabilitation centre, and hospitals in Welland, Guelph, Orangeville and Mississauga are still grappling with outbreaks, Toronto East General Hospital and locations in Napanee and Hamilton no longer face them.
"We?re very, very serious about this. C. difficile is an infection that is in hospitals pretty well everywhere," said Matthews, who was joined by Dr. David Williams, the province?s acting chief medical officer.
Williams said the death toll related to C. difficile sat at 12 in St. Catharines, with another four deaths at the Greater Niagara Hospital and three in Welland. There was another death of a patient earlier this week at a Niagara-on-the-Lake hospital bringing the total to 20, the Niagara Health System reported Friday.
Williams said there are still 42 cases of C. difficile in St. Catharines, 13 at the Welland hospital, 14 at the Niagara Falls hospital and another four at the site?s affiliated rehabilitation centre.
?All across the province, there are people with C. difficile in hospitals,? he said...
Superbug outbreak ends at three Ontario hospitals: health officials
By Carmen Chai, Postmedia News July 10, 2011 1:46 PM
he death toll linked to a C. difficile outbreak across Ontario has increased, but the number of hospitals battling the superbug is down to seven from 10 hospitals last week, provincial health authorities said Sunday.
At a news conference in Toronto, Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said that while St. Catharines General, Greater Niagara General and its rehabilitation centre, and hospitals in Welland, Guelph, Orangeville and Mississauga are still grappling with outbreaks, Toronto East General Hospital and locations in Napanee and Hamilton no longer face them.
"We?re very, very serious about this. C. difficile is an infection that is in hospitals pretty well everywhere," said Matthews, who was joined by Dr. David Williams, the province?s acting chief medical officer.
Williams said the death toll related to C. difficile sat at 12 in St. Catharines, with another four deaths at the Greater Niagara Hospital and three in Welland. There was another death of a patient earlier this week at a Niagara-on-the-Lake hospital bringing the total to 20, the Niagara Health System reported Friday.
Williams said there are still 42 cases of C. difficile in St. Catharines, 13 at the Welland hospital, 14 at the Niagara Falls hospital and another four at the site?s affiliated rehabilitation centre.
?All across the province, there are people with C. difficile in hospitals,? he said...