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  • Second Superbug Outbreak Kills Thirteen (C-Diff - UK)

    04/05/2007 2:09:56 PM PDT · by blam · 4 replies · 323+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-5-2007 | Martin Beckford
    Second superbug outbreak kills thirteen By Martin Beckford Last Updated: 11:38am BST 05/04/2007 Thirteen patients suffering from the superbug Clostridium difficile have died at another Norfolk hospital. It was revealed last week that an outbreak of the bug has killed 17 people at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, since December. Now the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King’s Lynn, just 65 miles away, has said that 13 of its patients who had C.difficile have died since the start of the year. The bug, which causes severe diarrhoea, was directly responsible for eight of the deaths and...