Cases of Clostridium difficile spike in nation's hospitals, report shows

By JoNel Aleccia
Health writer - MSNBC
updated 4:10 p.m. ET, Wed., April. 23, 2008

Cases of potentially deadly diarrheal infections jumped by more than 200 percent in the nation’s hospitals between 2000 and 2005, fueling new worries about the next bad bug.

Some 301,200 people contracted Clostridium difficile-associated disease — known as CDAD — in 2005, more than twice as many as previously counted, and 28,600 people died from the infection that year, according to a new report by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

That sharp spike follows a 74 percent increase in the number of CDAD cases recorded between 1993 and 2000. Overall, more than 2 million patients contracted the serious intestinal infection between 1993 and 2005, the report showed.


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i so need to catch this. deadly diarrhea should take off ten pounds at least, right?

Or your actual current body weight as a whole.

Alex Panzer should do some research, hook up with suppliers and begin to make enema snuff flicks.