Montgomery, NIH Near ‘Superbug’ Agreement

Pact would require notification of the public.

  After a fatal “superbug” swept through the National Institutes of Health earlier this year unbeknownst to the public, state and county officials are on the verge of an agreement that will require NIH to report outbreaks of similar hospital-acquired infections, according to Montgomery County's health officer. Last fall, a drug-resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae spread throughout NIH’s research hospital, infecting 18 people. Twelve of those cases were fatal; seven attributed to Klebsiella. Federal and state guidelines did not require NIH to report the outbreak, and NIH officials said they chose not to alert the public earlier because healthy people outside the hospital were at little to no risk, The Washington Post reported. …

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Report: 7th Death Attributed to 'Superbug' at NIH Clinical Center

An antibiotic-resistant superbug, which spread through the hospital last year, has killed a boy whose case was the first reported there since January.

A “superbug” infection killed a boy on Sept. 7 at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda. He was the seventh victim of the bacterial strain, The Washington Post reported. The victim, a seriously ill boy from Minnesota, died of a bloodstream infection, according to the report. The boy’s case marks the first new infection at the clinical center since January, The Post reported. An antibiotic-resistant strain of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae was first detected in a patient at the clinical center in August 2011 and spread to 17 additional patients, 11 of whom died. Staff there attributed six of the deaths directly to the superbug, The Post reported. Klebsiella infections can pose a threat to seriously ill, hospitalized patients with …

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Report: Seventh Death Attributed To 'Superbug' At NIH Clinical Center

An antibiotic-resistant superbug, which spread through the hospital last year, has killed a boy whose case was the first reported there since January.

A “superbug” infection killed a boy Sept. 7 at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, the seventh victim of the bacterial strain, The Washington Post reports. The victim, a seriously ill boy from Minnesota, died of a bloodstream infection, according to the report. The boy’s case marks the first new infection at the clinical center since January, The Post reported. An antibiotic-resistant strain of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae was first detected in a patient at the clinical center in August 2011 and spread to 17 additional patients, 11 of whom died. Staff there attributed six of the deaths directly to the superbug, The Post reported. Klebsiella infections can pose a threat to seriously ill, hospitalized patients with weakened immune …

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Berliner: NIH Should Have Notified County Of Superbug Outbreak

2011 outbreak at the NIH Clinical Center was made public this week, The Washington Post reported.

"Superbug" Killed Six Last Year At NIH Clinical Center

2011 outbreak of antibiotic-resistant bacteria made public Wednesday, The Washington Post reports.