A virulent stomach bug has been linked to the death of 17 patients in a Norfolk hospital in the United Kingdom, with 16 more being treated, Sky News reported.
The patients, most of them over 65, were hit by a new strain of the Clostridium Difficile, commonly known as C Diff.
The deaths occurred between December last year and March.
The hospital has spent an extra GBP 400,000 and has revised its antibiotic prescribing policy, removing the antibiotics resistant to the particular strain of the bug.
The hospital is not the first to be hit by the new bacterial strain, which killed at least 33 people at a hospital in Buckinghamshire between 2003 and 2005.