Superbug may already be widespread in Japan Recent outbreaks of a deadly bacterium in 2 hospitals in Japan apparently started from patients who have never travelled abroad. Experts say the superbug may be widespread in Japan. Teikyo University Hospital in Tokyo recently revealed that 9 patients who died in the hospital were infected by the drug resistant bacteria called Acinetobacter. The superbug has also infected 24 people at Fujita Health University Hospital in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, since February this year. The 2 hospitals say the first patients thought to be infected had not travelled abroad. Juntendo University associate professor Satoshi Hori says the bacterium may have already been spreading in Japan. He is recommending hospitals to quarantine suspected patients and strengthen monitoring to prevent in-house infections. 2010/09/08 07:32(JST) (JST: UTC+9hrs.) Superbug confirmed at Tokyo hospital Health authorities are investigating a Tokyo hospital for infections from a drug-resistant bacterium implicated in the deaths of 2 patients. Inspectors visited the Yurin Hospital in Setagaya Ward on Tuesday, one day after it reported 8 patients infected since February with the multi drug-resistant Acinetobacter. The hospital said 4 of the patients had died. Health authorities say the bacterium is resistant to almost all antibiotics and is probably the direct cause of two of the deaths. They say all the infected patients were in the same ward of the hospital and 5 …
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