Canadian Hospital Battles C. Diff Outbreak

From the CBC:

"A hospital ward in Joliette, Que., has been closed to visitors as health-care workers fight an outbreak of Colstridium difficile bacteria, which has infected 17 people in the last 12 days.

The Lanaudière regional hospital put strict new measures into place on Friday to help prevent the spread of infection.

Seventeen patients with C. difficile infections at the Lanaudière regional hospital were placed in isolation and were said to be in stable condition on Saturday.

All 17 patients with the infection were placed in isolation in the ward now closed to visitors and were said to be in stable condition on Saturday.

In addition, security guards at the entrances were asking those entering and leaving the hospital to wash their hands, according to a hospital news release."

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Air-borne, hospital-bred. These reports seem to be getting more common.