Deaths fear as hospital shut by bug; HEALTH.Byline: EOIN EOIN End of Instruction REYNOLDS A HOSPITAL is refusing visitors and has cancelled nonurgent operations after an outbreak of a deadly superbug su·per·bug n. Any of various disease-causing bacteria that develop a resistance to drugs normally used to control or eradicate them. superbug . An insider has claimed two elderly patients are already feared to have died from the C Diff infection after it struck at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital The 100-bed capacity Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is a tertiary hospital located in Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines, servicing the entire Bicol Region. The hospital is affiliated with the Our Lady of Lourdes College Foundation, and the Emilia Palencia Medical Mission. in Drogheda Co Louth. The HSE confirmed last night the hospital is contaminated. A spokeswoman said visits have been curtailed but insisted the hospital's busy emergency department will remain open. C Diff is associated with hospitals. It is unaffected by anti-biotics and like the better known MRSA MRSA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. See MARSA. , it thrives in patients being treated with the infection killers. |
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