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C. difficile hits local hospital
By Matthew Claxton, Langley Advance June 12, 2012
An outbreak of the C. difficile bacteria has sickened four patients at Langley Memorial Hospital and has caused a partial quarantine in one wing.
The outbreak was declared on June 8 in the Two-South unit, where all the patients were receiving treatment. Two-South is a general medical ward.
To ensure that the infection doesn't spread any further, the four patients have been put into a "mini-ward" of their own, said Roy Thorpe-Dorward, a spokesperson for Fraser Health...
C. difficile hits local hospital
By Matthew Claxton, Langley Advance June 12, 2012
An outbreak of the C. difficile bacteria has sickened four patients at Langley Memorial Hospital and has caused a partial quarantine in one wing.
The outbreak was declared on June 8 in the Two-South unit, where all the patients were receiving treatment. Two-South is a general medical ward.
To ensure that the infection doesn't spread any further, the four patients have been put into a "mini-ward" of their own, said Roy Thorpe-Dorward, a spokesperson for Fraser Health...