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HospitalsFebruary 26, 2015
Baddest Bug: C. diff Hits Half a Million Americans
More than 450,000 Americans get infected with the deadly bug Clostridioides difficile each year, according to a new report. And almost all cases are caused by the overuse of antibiotics.
“C. difficile was responsible for almost half a million infections and was associated with approximately 29,000 deaths in 2011,” the team of researchers reported Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
That’s almost twice as many deaths as any other survey has shown before for the infection, usually called C. diff for short.