{"id":350086,"date":"2011-03-30T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/us-in-deadly-hospital-germ-probe\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:35:49","slug":"us-in-deadly-hospital-germ-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/us-in-deadly-hospital-germ-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"US in deadly hospital germ probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"65.219512195122\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>30 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>11:35 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Federal officials are investigating an outbreak of a bacterial blood infection that killed nine patients and made 10 others ill in Alabama hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, already seriously ill, were stricken with Serratia marcescens bacteremia this month.<\/p>\n<p>All had been given an intravenous nutritional product manufactured by an Alabama company, which recalled all of its products following the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>But an Alabama health official warned the outbreak&#8217;s origin remained unclear. <\/p>\n<p>  <span>&#8216;Contained&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The stricken patients at six Alabama hospitals were all taking an intravenous nutritional product manufactured by a single pharmacy, Meds IV, the state Department of Public Health said in a Tuesday <a href=\"http:\/\/adph.org\/news\/assets\/110329.pdf\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Upon learning of the outbreak, the company ceased production and on 24 March recalled all of its intravenous products, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not expecting any additional cases,&#8221; Dr Mary McIntyre, of the department&#8217;s bureau of communicable disease, told the BBC. &#8220;It has been contained.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she cautioned that investigators had not directly linked the outbreak to the nutritional product, called TPN (total parenteral nutrition).<\/p>\n<p>She said the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration had joined state authorities in the investigation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-12911001\" title=\"US in deadly hospital germ probe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US in deadly hospital germ probe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 30 March 2011 Last updated at 11:35 ET Federal officials are investigating an outbreak of a bacterial blood infection that killed nine patients and made 10 others ill in Alabama hospitals. 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