Laundry services have been suspended during an investigation of a fungal outbreak at a Hong Kong hospital that has been linked to two patient deaths, according to an article on the South China Morning Post website.
More than a dozen public hospitals have stopped using a laundry service that supplied infected linen to Queen Mary Hospital.
The action was taken after half the linen samples from Sham Wan Laundry were found to contain rhizopus microsporus, a fungus normally found in soil and decaying food.
The laundry, run by contractor ISS to whom the washing work was outsourced, supplied bed sheets and clothes to 14 public hospitals and a clinic in Sai Ying Pun, health authorities said.
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