More Than 700 Infants Exposed To TB At Texas HospitalHave these people never heard of nosocomial infections? Have they never heard that almost two million nosocomial infections occur per year in the US? Yet somehow that very same group of institutions will not have the same problems with Ebola as with any other pathogen?EL PASO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — More than 700 infants at an El Paso hospital have been exposed to tuberculosis by an employee infected with the disease, according to public health officials.
The city’s Department of Public Health says the infants along with about 40 employees at Providence Memorial Hospital were exposed.
Officials say they were exposed from September 2013 to August. The employee worked in the hospital’s nursery. Officials said employment and medical records were reviewed to determine which infants and employees were exposed.
Tell me about it. One of my hubby’s aunts got c diff during a hospital stay. And she ended up having to have the ‘transplant’ to get rid of that.
*shudder*