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EFFORTS ARE being made to contain an outbreak of clostridium difficile (C Diff) at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, where two patients who had the hospital acquired infection died in recent days.

Another 10 patients currently in the hospital have tested positive for the superbug and a further two patients are suspected to have it.