The moral significance of antimicrobial resistance

These media reports focused primarily on the Victorian Health Department's investigation into the case (hepatitis B is a notifiable disease), which 'ruled out' that the man could have contracted the disease from any other source and that the dialysis unit was the likely source of transmission. The Department also reported that it 'could not identify any breaches in infection controls at the hospital's dialysis unit' even though this contradicted the family's account of the standards of infection prevention and control they had reportedly witnessed.