superbug on the loose in Ontario hospitals

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superbug on the loose in Ontario hospitals

....One in 14 hospitals in Ontario were dealing with an outbreak of Clostridium

difficile. commonly known as C. difficile, according to statistics collected by

the Ministry of Health for the month of May. While some have since been taken

off the list, several others have been hit with their own outbreaks in recent

weeks...

While officials scramble to contain the outbreaks in Ontario, an

infectious-bacteria expert is warning that hospitals are going about tackling

the problem the wrong way.

, director of the joint anti-microbial stewardship program at

University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, is calling on the Ontario

government to push doctors to prescribe fewer antibiotics, which leave the

elderly particularly vulnerable to infection with C. difficile.

" We've been improving hand washing for the last few years, and all we've seen if

anything is an increase in C. difficile, " Dr. said in an interview. " I

don't believe this is only a hand-hygiene issue. It's an unnecessary-antibiotic

issue. " ...

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