The organism known as C. difficile inhabits the gut of up to 70% of healthy newborns and 3% of healthy adults, so it hasn't always been considered a pathogen.7 (This may be why some practitioners don't consider it infectious.) The microbe's destructive nature emerged only after the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics came into vogue. C-Diff is not a new phenomenon but as hygiene standards in Hospitals under strain slip the number of cases has risen sharply. The number of deaths associated with C-Diff in the UK rose by 72 per cent from 3757 deaths in 2005 to 6480 in 2006.
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