Ontario: C. difficile outbreak at Sarnia's Bluewater Health- Over

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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2012/01/05/wdr-c-dif-sarnia-bluewater.html

C. difficile outbreak at Sarnia's Bluewater Health
Visitation is limited, cleaning procedures strengthened
CBC News
Posted: Jan 5, 2012 11:38 AM ET
Last Updated: Jan 5, 2012 11:34 AM ET

There's a C. difficile outbreak at the hospital in Sarnia, Ont.

Helen Shaw, who is in charge of infection control at Bluewater Health, said fewer than five people have been diagnosed with the bacteria...

 

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Re: Ontario: C. difficile outbreak at Sarnia's Bluewater Health

Re: Ontario: C. difficile outbreak at Sarnia's Bluewater Health

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2012/02/08/wdr-c-difficile-sarnia-deaths.html

3 C. difficile patients die in Sarnia
Fewer than five others still infected as hospital works to rid facility of the bacteria
CBC News
Posted: Feb 8, 2012 11:56 AM ET
Last Updated: Feb 8, 2012 1:07 PM ET

Three people who contracted C. difficile at a hospital in Sarnia have died.

Bluewater Health has been dealing with the bacteria for a month now.

Vice president of medical affairs, Dr. Mark Taylor, said that "it certainly appears that in two of the deaths, at least, this was a major contributor, if not causal to their death."

Taylor said C. difficile was not the cause of the third death, although the patient had contracted the bacterial infection...

 

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Re: Ontario: C. difficile outbreak at Sarnia's Bluewater Health

Source: http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3484485

Hospital visitor restrictions lifted; illness strikes another unit
By DANIEL PUNCH, The Observer
Updated 9 hours ago

The battle against C. difficile infection continues at Bluewater Health.

The hospital is ending visitor restrictions stemming from a C. difficile outbreak at its inpatient ward, but similar symptoms have popped up in another unit.

There?s been no new cases of the antibiotic-resistant superbug at the inpatient unit, Bluewater Health said Monday.

Three hospital patients infected with C. difficile died during a recent outbreak and two of the deaths were directly linked to the infection. C. difficile can cause severe diarrhea and fever...

 

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Re: Ontario: C. difficile outbreak at Sarnia's Bluewater Health- Over

Source: http://www.theobserver.ca/2012/04/23/c-difficile-outbreak-over-at-hospital

C. difficile outbreak over at hospital
By Daniel Punch, Sarnia Observer
Monday, April 23, 2012 2:26:43 EDT PM

Bluewater Health declared the end of a C. difficile outbreak at its inpatient medicine unit Monday after more than three months of battling with the superbug.

The hospital?s C. difficile infection rate dropped below an internal outbreak benchmark, and is now closer to the baseline rate, said Bluewater Health infection control coordinator Helen Shaw.

?We?re out of outbreak, we?re back to what we would see on a normal basis,? said Shaw.

Three patients infected with C. difficile died during the early weeks of the outbreak, with two of those deaths linked directly to the bacterial infection, hospital VP of medical affairs Mark Taylor confirmed in February...