Eight soldiers catch superbugs after UK return - The Telegraph 31st March 2008

Monday, March 31, 2008

Eight soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have contracted potentially lethal superbugs at a specialist hospital in the past 12 months. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show seven of the soldiers caught Clostridium Difficile (C.diff) last year at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham, while one soldier contracted MRSA there.

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