BURLINGTON, Ont.—Sixty-two patients at a Burlington, Ont. hospital died as a result of C. difficile infections during an outbreak of the superbug that lasted 20 months.
A review of deaths by the Infection Prevention and Control Unit of the University Health Network in Toronto shows the outbreak ran from May 1, 2006 to Dec. 31, 2007.
Aggressive control since November has driven infection rates lower then they were before the outbreak at Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital.
No new cases have been reported since April 15.