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A local hospital is transferring babies from its neonatal intensive care unit after patients tested positive for a bacteria that could cause a life-threatening infection.

Prince George’s Hospital Center has found that three infants have pseudomonas, according to NBC 4. And officials are now transferring nine babies to other hospitals.

In healthy people, pseudomonas infections can cause skin rashes, ear infections, and mild illnesses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, people who are infected in hospitals are susceptible to “severe illness and death.”

Hospital officials told NBC 4 that the infants who tested positive for the bacteria do not show symptoms “for any active infection.” Their biggest concern is transferring patients safely out of the hospital, which is located in Cheverly, Maryland.

A spokesperson also told NBC that two babies recently died in the NICU, but did not say if the deaths were related to this bacterial infection or when the babies died.