Researcher calls C. difficile `an epidemic&#39;
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MONTREALâAn infection-control specialist has described a Clostridium difficile outbreak in Quebec as an &quot;epidemic&quot; that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.
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SMELLING faeces could soon play a crucial role in detecting the hospital bug Clostridium difficile, scientists said.  The odour from healthy stools and people with infectious diarrhoea differ in their chemical composition.
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In research published today in the American Journal of Epidemiology a team of researchers from Imperial College London, the Health Protection Agency, Medical Research Council and GlaxoSmithKline analysed the numbers of opiate and injecting drug users who
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A World Health Organization expert is ominously warning there&#39;s no question the global population will face another flu pandemic, it&#39;s just a matter of when.
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A deadly bacteria that attacks the intestines of mainly elderly patients is showing up with more frequency at a handful of Ontario hospitals, Joshua Tepper, the Canadian province's acting chief medical officer of health, said on Tuesday.
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A false belief among young patients that the virus can be cured is fuelling a rise in infections, a specialist says.
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Scientists say the number of cases of humans being infected with bird flu may have been underestimated.
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There are reports a bacteria plaguing Quebec hospitals is more widespread and deadly than previously believed. After studying the spread of Clostridium difficile bacteria at eight hospitals in Montreal, a
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State health officials across New England think the disease could spread quickly, particularly because of the regionâs abundance of college students, who are thought to be at particular risk.
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Washington University researchers are the first to grow a common cause of diarrhea, vomiting and other stomach problems in a lab, a move that a North Carolina expert said could speed along development of a vaccine, the university said Monday.
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MONTREAL (CP) - City health officials knew about the deadly C. difficile outbreak at least five months before the provincial Health Department was informed, according to a broadcast report.
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MONTREAL (CP) - The number of C. difficile cases in Quebec hospitals is in decline, provincial public health officials said Friday.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA, statistics show.
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Quebec hospitals have been ordered to isolate patients who are infected with C. difficile. But according to some patients, that isn&#39;t always happening fast enough.
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NEW YORK  - A study shows that individuals can harbor the bacterium, Clostridium difficile, but may not become ill. However, these carriers frequently shed virus onto their skin and into the environment and, as a result, may contribute significantly to disease transmission.
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An infectious disease expert is warning that the United States and other countries aren&#39;t prepared for an outbreak of bird flu.
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The incidence of drug-resistant staph infections is climbing, affecting as many as 90,000 Americans a year and leaving them open to contracting invasive, and often fatal, diseases, a government report says.