Four people have been infected with a superbug linked to a contaminated medical scope, Cedars Sinai has discovered, and 64 others may have been exposed.
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said it has discovered that four patients were infected with a deadly superbug from a contaminated medical scope and 64 more people may have been exposed.
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FOR THE RECORD
1:44 p.m: An earlier version of this article said 68 people in addition to the four infected patients may have been exposed to the superbug. An additional 64 people may have been exposed.
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The hospital said Wednesday it began investigating the possibility of patient infections after a similar outbreak at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center. In that outbreak, five people became infected and two died after being treated with scopes carrying CRE bacteria.
Patients at Cedars-Sinai may have been exposed to the lethal superbug from one Olympus Corp. duodenoscope in use from August 2014 to mid-February, according to the hospital.
Cedars-Sinai said one of the four infected patients has died, but it was unrelated to a CRE infection.
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The infections at UCLA and now Cedars-Sinai are the latest in a string of similar scope-related outbreaks across the United States.
The Food and Drug Administration said last month that it was aware of 135 possible patient infections from January 2013 to December 2014 linked to duodenoscopes.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82973527/
Superbug outbreak extends to Cedars-Sinai hospital, linked to scope
BY CHAD TERHUNE
Los Angeles Times
March 4, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
[From article]
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said it has discovered that four patients were infected with a deadly superbug from a contaminated medical scope and 64 more people may have been exposed.
------------
FOR THE RECORD
1:44 p.m: An earlier version of this article said 68 people in addition to the four infected patients may have been exposed to the superbug. An additional 64 people may have been exposed.
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The hospital said Wednesday it began investigating the possibility of patient infections after a similar outbreak at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center. In that outbreak, five people became infected and two died after being treated with scopes carrying CRE bacteria.
Patients at Cedars-Sinai may have been exposed to the lethal superbug from one Olympus Corp. duodenoscope in use from August 2014 to mid-February, according to the hospital.
Cedars-Sinai said one of the four infected patients has died, but it was unrelated to a CRE infection.
[. . .]
The infections at UCLA and now Cedars-Sinai are the latest in a string of similar scope-related outbreaks across the United States.
The Food and Drug Administration said last month that it was aware of 135 possible patient infections from January 2013 to December 2014 linked to duodenoscopes.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82973527/
Superbug outbreak extends to Cedars-Sinai hospital, linked to scope
BY CHAD TERHUNE
Los Angeles Times
March 4, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
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