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Weather for Oakville, ON Fri Sat Sun Mon Two men face human trafficking charges -- police investigate at Oakville hotel Page 3 www.insidehalton.com -1° -5° 0° -6° -6° -12° -6° -14° dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 www. oakvillebeaver .com Stay Connected! Friday, January 31, 2014 | 24 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax T H E N A M E O F T H E G A M E OTMH warns public of spike in numbers of C. diff cases by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff In a local salute to this Sunday's Super Bowl XLVIII matchup, which pits the Denver Broncos against the Seattle Seahawks, W.H. Morden Public School challenged Brookdale Public School to a game of touch football Thursday. Played outside in the snow, the game featured the schools, who share the same team names as the two National Football League (NFL) teams vying for this year's championship -- the Morden Seahawks and the Brookdale Broncos. Here, Divya Thakkar of the local Broncos tags Eirikr Copeland of the Seahawks. The Morden Seahawks won the game. | photo by Michael Ivanin ­ special to the Beaver The infection known as C. dif cile, contagious to those at risk and dif cult to treat, has affected 15 patients at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH) in the last month. This spike in cases has Halton Healthcare Services A usual number at (HHS) alerting the our place would be public to the issue. six or seven cases in The advisory a month and we are was released late Wednesday afhaving something in ter the increase the order of 15. This is was con rmed by a signi cant increase HHS's infection for us. control monitoring and surveillance Dr. Neil Rau program. infectious disease specialist, "A usual number Halton Healthcare Services at our place would be six or seven cases in a month and we are having something in the order of 15," said Dr. Neil Rau, HHS Infectious Diseases Specialist, Medical Microbiologist and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control. see Hospital on p.4