C. Diff Outbreak 'Worst Ever' in UK

Apparently eight are dead in Northern Trust area of Ireland and cases have doubled double in Belfast hospitals.

From The Belfast Telegraph:

"Fears over the spread of the deadly superbug Clostridium Difficile were growing last night after a second health trust declared an outbreak of the killer infection as the worst ever in the UK.

Just hours after the Northern Trust confirmed that a further eight deaths last month in the area were linked to C.Difficile, the Belfast Trust also announced an official outbreak after the number of cases doubled in a month.

The latest deaths in the Northern area, which occurred at Antrim Area Hospital, bring to 61 the provisional number linked to the bug since the outbreak first took hold last summer — with 40 of those patients having died since the beginning of this year.

But a Northern Trust spokesman insisted there was a reduction in the number of new infection cases.

“The Trust has identified a total of 19 new cases of Clostridium Difficile in July 2008,” he said."

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Watch this hospital get a class action lawsuit put against it... They have those in Ireland, right?

The fact is, the UK's national health care system is not immune to lost or squandered money that should have gone into maintenance and staff training. Not that I'm supporting the US healthcare "sysem" -- but let's not get into single payer insurance plans or universal health care...

Anyway, watch out all of you who live in Northern Belfast - the hospitals are sick!

1 2 3 4 KINGDOM!

Any one know what I'm talking about? Riget? It is a must see!!