Posted AT 4:50 AM EDT on 08/05/08
C. difficile exacts heavy toll at Ontario hospital
TORONTO — A deadly outbreak of a highly contagious superbug at an Ontario hospital claimed the lives of one-third of the patients afflicted with the disease, a far greater toll than previously believed.
Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital in Burlington announced yesterday that 91 of the 177 patients diagnosed with Clostridium difficile, commonly known as C. difficile, over a 20-month period ending last December died in the institution.
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