A premature baby died while four others were found sick at a New Jersey hospital because of a bacterial infection.
According to reports, health officials are probing into bacterial infections in the neonatal intensive care unit of University Hospital in Newark following the death of the premature baby in late September.
In a statement published by Eyewitness News, Newark Department of Health and Community Wellness director Mark Wade said that they were notified of the death of the infant on Oct. 25.
Following the child’s death, the state Department of Health also discovered four cases of Acinetobacter baumannii infection in the NICU of the hospital since October.
Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria is known to cause pneumonia or serious blood or wound infections.
Wade said that acinetobacter is a hospital-acquired infection with no community transmission, which means that it does not pose risk of spreading in the Newark community.
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