
Superbugs hit crowded Ottawa hospital
The Ottawa Hospital is blaming overcrowding for an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant "superbug" bacteria at its Civic and General campuses.
Both campuses of the hospital are fighting outbreaks of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, or VRE, while the Civic campus's intensive-care unit has six patients who've been isolated with Clostridium difficile, which causes severe vomiting and diarrhea.
An outbreak of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has also hit a section of the Civic campus.
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