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C Difficile Outbreak

New Drug For C. Difficile Approved And Deemed 'Promising'

CP | Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press | Posted 09.04.2012 | Canada Living

TORONTO - Doctors struggling to cure patients with C. difficile diarrhea have a new weapon in their armoury.A new antibiotic specifically developed to...

Possible C. Difficile Death At Niagara Hospital

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.19.2012 | Canada

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - The Niagara Health System is trying to determine if C. difficile caused the death of a patient.A person with C. difficile died o...

Niagara Hospital Worker Infected With C. Difficile

CP | Posted 09.12.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - A hospital worker in the Niagara region has contracted C. difficile. Niagara Health System interim CEO...

Hospitals Fighting C. Difficile Outbreak Falls To Seven

Posted 09.09.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- TORONTO - The number of Ontario hospitals battling C. difficile outbreaks has fallen to seven, the province said Sunday. Onta...

C. Difficile Outbreak 'Par For The Course' In Ontario

The Canadian Press | Posted 09.07.2011 | Canada

TORONTO - A spate of C. difficile outbreaks that has struck at least eight hospitals in Ontario is "par for the course" in the province, an infectious...

Ontario Calls In Federal Expert On C. Difficile

CP | Posted 09.06.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- OTTAWA - The federal government has sent a "disease detective" to help Ontario deal with a dangerous outbreak of C. difficile th...

4th Ontario Hospital Declares C. Difficile Outbreak

CBC | Posted 09.06.2011 | Canada

CBC -- A fourth health facility in Ontario's Niagara region has confirmed an outbreak of C. difficile after six patients tested positive for the bacte...