Suspected C Diff Case Closes Ward At Hospital

Link: Suspected Superbug Case Closes Ward At Hospital (from The Northern Echo).

HOSPITAL chiefs have closed a ward to new admissions after a suspected superbug case. Officials at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough have closed a ward - believed to be ward 12 - to new admissions. The decision was taken after a case of Clostridium difficile, an infectious organism which can cause distressing bouts of diarrhoea, was suspected on the ward.