Eight Children Infected By Resistant Bacteria In Glasgow Hospital

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Eight children have so far become infected by pseudomonas aeruginosa (potentially deadly bacteria) over the past eight weeks while at the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at a the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, Scotland. Doctors are still trying to find out where the strain came from. Three of the children had become infected a few weeks ago and are not in hospital any more. The unit will carry on admitting emergency patients, but has been closed to elective surgeries. According to the hospital, all the five children who are still in hospital are responding well to antibiotic medication - they expect two of them will be moved out of intensive care tomorrow.