Suspected superbug case closes ward at hospital
7:11pm Tuesday 3rd July 2007
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.
Once a case of Clostridium difficile is suspected, it is normal practice on hospital wards to exclude new patients and ask visitors to stay away until the outbreak is brought under control.
Like most North-East NHS trusts, the South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust has less than the national average number of cases of what is usually referred to as C.difficile.
However, there have been 125 cases of C. difficile cases at the trust since April this year, including 103 from James Cook hospital and 22 from the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.
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