Hong Kong hospital bosses have started providing full screenings for a type of superbug – dubbed “enemy No 1” – to increase the speed of detection and isolation, after the number of cases increased by 40 per cent last year.
Anyone already in hospital and deemed high-risk will be checked for carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae (CPE), with the tests carried out on site.
On Friday Dr Dominic Tsang Ngai-chong, chief infection control officer at the Hospital...
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