Canadian hospitals see increase in deadly bacteria
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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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Hospital visitors are being urged to improve their hygiene in an effort to crack down on infections.
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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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The Quebec health department has been too slow reacting to the outbreak of C. difficile in hospitals in Montreal and elsewhere in the province.
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Quebec&#39;s provincial government has announced measures to step up the fight against a deadly strain of the Clostridium difficile bacterium plaguing hospitals in the province.
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A dangerous, drug-resistant staph germ may be infecting as many as 5 percent of hospital and nursing home patients, according to a comprehensive study.
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Hospitals are told they must do more to tackle infections - including the MRSA superbug - at Welsh hospitals.
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Newly-released figures for hospital infections such as the superbug MRSA show Welsh hospitals are performing better than their English counterparts.
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Rates of the superbug MRSA are falling, but the potentially more dangerous C. difficile is thriving, figures show.
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MONTREAL - Hospitals need to be systematic and consistent about applying infection control measures to cut short an outbreak of C. difficile in Quebec, provincial health officials said Thursday.
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Drug-resistant bacteria are infecting more people in community settings such as prisons and public housing, and not just in hospitals where such "superbugs" can run rampant, researchers said on Monday.
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One of Australia&#39;s major hospitals fears its operating rooms may have been contaminated with a fatal brain-wasting disease. Royal Melbourne Hospital is contacting over a thousand patients who had brain or spinal surgery there in the past 18 months.
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals was on high alert today over fears that a form of CJD suffered by one of its patients may have been transmitted to others via surgical instruments.
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Patients infected with the lethal C. difficile bacterium routinely share common rooms with uninfected patients at the Montreal General and Royal Victoria hospitals, The Gazette has learned.
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The microbes within us could explain rising allergy rates.
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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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MONTREAL (CP) - An infection-control specialist described a C. difficile outbreak in Quebec Wednesday as an &#39;epidemic&#39; that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.