CTV.ca | C. difficile threat growing, study finds
A strain of bacteria that has been plaguing Quebec hospitals is more widespread and deadly than previously believed.
A study by McGill University epidemiologist Vivian Loo looked at incidents of Clostridium difficile infection at 10 hospitals in Montreal and Sherbrooke, Que. from January to June of this year.
Loo found the bug has killed 109 people. Another 33 patients underwent major intestinal surgery to control their affliction, said the study.
