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Screening for Source of Superbug

The parents of 63 babies born at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital neo-natal unit are being contacted to help identify the source of a bacteria.

Seven babies have so far been infected by an outbreak of PVL which attacks white blood cells leaving the sufferer unable to fight infection.

One baby - a boy born prematurely to a couple from Dereham - died after contracting the PVL infection.

Seven sets of parents have still to be contacted.

Read the full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/6215301.stm
Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 January 2008 )