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40 Patients Were Infected by a Hospital's Water Supply Across 6 Years


For seven years, a renowned British hospital has grappled with a serious bacterial outbreak in its water supply that, according to a coroner's inquest and a new scientific paper, was linked to two deaths and 38 other cases of infection.

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