Hospital-Related Infection — United States
***[This is not recalling a post — it reports cases occurring after the scopes were recalled. – ProMED]***
Two patients died, and 6 more were sickened in a new outbreak suspected of being caused by contaminated medical scopes, according to a regulatory report by device manufacturer Olympus Corp.
The report shows that hospitals are continuing to use a device that was recalled in January [2016], which experts have found to be extremely difficult to disinfect. The name and location of the
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