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A TOTAL OF 26 people across Ireland have been hit with a superbug in the last four weeks.
Called Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), the National Public Health Emergency Team has published its latest situational report on the bug.
The figures show that between 12 March and 8 April, 26 cases were detected.
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae is the newest superbug that is difficult to kill with antibiotics and pose particular problems in hospital environments.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) say that CPE is a serious threat to patient safety due to its resistance of medicines, meaning there are very few options to treat it.
More than half of all patients who develop bloodstream infections with CPE die as a result of their infection.
CPE has been identified throughout the world in recent years. Ireland has seen an increase in the number of cases year on year. The number of cases almost doubled in 2016 and is estimated to increase by a further third in 2017. The spread of this superbug in hospitals can lead to the closure of beds, wards and units removing thereby, essential capacity to provide services, to admit patients from Emergency Departments and to address waiting lists effectively.
A National CPE Response Team was established in May last year to work with hospitals and other healthcare providers to combat the rise.
The HSE says there is a variation in the implementation of the National CPE Screening Policy across hospital groups and individual hospitals, with a push to place CPE on a list of notifiable diseases.
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They should ask John-Joe.
Bet you it was because of this leap second issue that John Joe is looking at auctioneering as a career. Smart lad. He saw the trouble coming!
Waaaaaaay too much time on their hands
Why worry about leap seconds when summer time with a bi-annual movement by one hour causes large disruption not only to a technological age but also to personal sleep patterns.
Summer time was invented when farmers were the majority of the workforce and now form a tiny minority.
I personally find it disruptive as when dealing in international business, different countries change times on different days or not at all.
Don’t take away our long summer nights! It’s all we have left in Ireland…
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day….
Ha.
I clocked that on the second time..
Sure it’s all relative.
They’ll have a hard time coming up with a solution
Alan lawlor – I wouldn’t say farming is now a minority. It seems to me farming is back bone of our economy and will be for ever more I wreckon. And there not the reason for the clock change. Its done globally!
Derek. I am not saying we should dispense with farming. But should we all be disrupted for a few thousand now directly affected? Especially as it was designed for things like milking in early morning and harvesting late at night without the modern benefits of electricity in milking parlours or spotlights on harvesters.
Regarding global use of summertime, it is not used in all countries and the changeover date differs from country to country (eg US is different). Some countries including UK have been debating its abolition in recent years
You can get better food cheaper from any other country
What actual time is it,right now?
Hammer Time!
Well we obviously cant “dispense” of farming. Its keeping our economy alive at the moment. Strongly rumoured the suger industry is gonna be ressurcted. But I do agree with the abolishing of the hour change. No need in this modern world. Oh ya as I grew up I was always told it was for school drop offs and not for the farmers. And to JIM ‘better food imported “for cheaper is going in for ridiculous quote of the week. Are u for real?
Wait a second…
Time is irrelevant ,concerning builders plumbers or anybody in construction industry . Two weeks they said !!!
“15 seconds every hundred years” Doesn’t sound like the world would end coz of it, does it?
Time doesn’t exist, clocks exist.;
Dahh dah dah da, da da, da da. :)
:( my comment moved… This was supposed to be under hammertime. Granted… it’s still fairly crap.
Give them a few seconds to think about it.
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