Five patients at the Carlos Haya Hospital in Málaga are infected by a bacteria of unknown origin and another fourteen are contaminated by the germ, although they have not developed the infection.
The first cases of the bacterium Klebsiella Pneumoniae appeared in late April and the hospital adopted hygeine and other protocols to prevent the spread of the germ.
The Klebsiella, a bacteria that may be present in the intestines of healthy people without affecting their health, attacks the most vulnerable and immunocompromised patients, often becoming resistant to antibiotics.
The bacteria is apparently not spread by air but by contact, and infected patients were already in the ICU for other conditions when it was detected that they had contracted the germ.