No evidence HSE has superbug under control, scientist warns
(WorldNews Health)

A scientist overseeing the Health Service Executive´s fight against a dangerous superbug warned last year there was no evidence it had any greater control over the problem than when it was first declared an emergency. Prof Martin Cormican, HSE national lead for healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance, made his observations last September after the Department of Health had raised the possibility of declaring an end to the public-health emergency for the superbug Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE). Concern about the growing threat posed by the superbug, which is resistant to most antibiotics, led to Minister...