Superbug killing more patients than MRSA, says HSE

MORTALITY rates in Irish hospitals from the superbug, Clostridium Difficile, are higher than those from MRSA, the chief executive of the Health Services Executive revealed yesterday.

Professor Brendan Drumm told an Oireachtas Committee that the bacterial organism is more fatal than MRSA in hospitals.

Infections most often occur in hospitals and it is mostly developed by patients who have recently taken antibiotics.