Baby contracted Indian superbug

A potentially lethal, highly drug-resistant superbug previously unheard of in Ireland, which infected eight people in a major hospital last year, was also diagnosed in a six-month-old baby.

A new report by Eurosurveillance, the peer-review medical journal, has found the highly dangerous klebsiella pnemoniae virus, which is normally found on the Indian sub-continent, was recorded in the infant in Dublin last May.

Just two months earlier, a similar outbreak of klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase infected seven patients at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick, and another in a long-stay facility in the Mid-West.