Deaths from hospital superbug Clostridium Difficile quadruple - The Sunday Telegraph 18th May 2008

The number of deaths in Britain linked to the potentially deadly superbug Clostridium difficile has quadrupled in just five years, a report will warn next week. More than 6,000 people died in 2006 after becoming infected with the gut infection in hospitals across England and Wales - a more than four-fold rise compared with 2001 figures, the Office of National Statistics will say. Meanwhile, the number of deaths linked to MRSA rose by more than one third, with the infection mentioned on almost 1,700 death certificates in 2006.

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