Originally published September 12 2005
Superbug infects thousands of elderly British patients
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A potentially lethal superbug plaguing British hospitals, known as Clostridium difficile, infected 44,488 people over the age of 65 last year.
Record numbers of elderly people fell victim last year to a potentially lethal superbug which is plaguing Britain's hospitals, according to details of the first complete survey of the disease.
Concerns about the bug, Clostridium difficile, were first revealed in The Independent in June following an outbreak of a lethal strain at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
The figures yesterday showed that there were 44,488 cases of the bug among people over 65.
The first published since reporting outbreaks became compulsory, the statistics show that the scale of the problem is greater than previously thought.
A voluntary reporting scheme showed there were 35,536 cases of infection in 2003.
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