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Franklin Bowers, 71, who lived at Trinity House on North Potomac Street, died from an infection called clostridium difficile colitis (c-diff), according to his son, Dwayne Bowers of Waynesboro.

Dwayne is not sure if the infection was caused by his injuries in the crash and is attempting to get his father’s medical records. He said if the infection was caused by the accident, his lawyers will proceed from there. Dwayne Bowers said he does not know if Waynesboro police will become involved if his father’s death is related to the crash.

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US-IN-Indy Star.com-IU researcher leads fight against infections

September 10th, 2007

Study of how to reduce hospital superbugs could help save lives, money nationwide

It may be as simple as screening hospital patients for superbug infections.

That’s one prescription Indianapolis hospitals are testing in an effort to decrease the number of deaths and illnesses caused by infections that health-care providers may inadvertently spread to patients.

Working with every hospital system in Indianapolis, Indiana University School of Medicine researcher Dr. Bradley Doebbeling is conducting a study that could help save lives, prevent infections and save hospitals money.

The hope is that hospitals will change policies that could reduce the number of patients in intensive care units who develop infections that are resistant to frontline antibiotics, such as penicillin.

If the methods he’s advocating prove successful, health-care providers nationwide could follow the model and reduce infection rates in their hospitals.

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Canada-The Canadian Press- Symptomless carriers of C. diff may pose infection risk to other patients

September 10th, 2007

TORONTO (CP) — People who have C. difficile spores in their gastrointestinal tracts but who aren’t sick may be serving as a source of infection for others in hospitals and long-term care facilities battling outbreaks of the difficult-to-contain diarrhea, a new study suggests.U.S. researchers found these seemingly unaffected patients were nearly as likely as people sick with Clostridium difficile diarrhea to have the bacteria on their skin or on objects in their bedside area.

They even found spores on and around patients who weren’t shedding C. difficile - a discovery that suggests health-care workers were unwittingly spreading bacteria from asymptomatic carriers to non-carriers in the facility.

“It’s kind of been passed down over the years that the patients we should worry the most about are the patients who are having diarrhea,” said senior author Dr. Curtis Donskey, a researcher at Case Western Reserve University and director of infection control at the Louis Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Canada-Globe and Mail-Top hospital to screen all patients for superbugs

September 9th, 2007

TORONTO — Canada’s largest research hospital is about to launch a massive screening program that will test every overnight patient for two virulent superbugs that kill thousands in their path. For the 30,000 people admitted annually at the University Health Network in Toronto – whether for a broken hip or brain surgery – the nation’s most ambitious bug-fighting plan in history will subject their noses, underarms, groins and anuses to swab-wielding staff.

The network’s three facilities – Princess Margaret, Toronto General and Toronto Western hospitals – will start screening as early as next month, taking aim at methicillen-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). The two intruders, along with other superbugs, are among the hospital-acquired infections that kill more than 8,000 people a year, roughly the same number who die of breast cancer and car accidents combined.

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Proton Labs MRSA Watch

UK-The Comet 24-Isolation ward to combat infection

UK-Camden New Journal-Coming clean: Hospital’s dirty secrets revealed

UK-Legal & Medical-Johnson announces new anti-infection measures

ealth Secretary Alan Johnson this week announced a package of measures to help tackle hospital infections.

US-ABC News-Docs: U.K. Coat Ban Alone Won’t Stop Infection

Canada-Globe and Mail-Hospitals urged to post infection rates

Public has a right to know,’ experts say in wake of superbug report

US-MA-Milford Daily News-Lawmakers push health care bill

US-PA-Waynesboro Record Herald-Waynesboro crosswalk victim dies in hospital

US-IN-Indy Star.com-IU researcher leads fight against infections

Canada-The Canadian Press- Symptomless carriers of C. diff may pose infection risk to other patients

Canada-Globe and Mail-Top hospital to screen all patients for superbugs

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