Posted AT 5:41 AM EDT on 09/05/08
Hospitals under pressure to reveal C. difficile outbreaks
TORONTO — Patient advocates are calling on governments across the country to force hospitals to tell the public about the outbreak of a highly contagious superbug that claimed the lives of 62 patients at one Ontario health-care institution.
The province has the highest incidence of Clostridium difficile, commonly known as C. difficile, according to a study of 44 Canadian hospitals done by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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