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US woman dies of infection resistant to all 26 available antibiotics
Agence France Presse via Yahoo ^ | January 13, 20171/13/17 | Agence France Presse (AFP)

Posted on 01/16/2017 3:21:22 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt

Edited on 01/17/2017 3:40:30 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The specific strain of CRE, known as Klebsiella pneumoniae, was isolated from one of her wounds in August.

Tests were negative for the mcr-1 gene

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: antibiotics; bacterium; drugresistant; publichealth; sepsis; superbug
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1 posted on 01/16/2017 3:21:22 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

>and had recently been hospitalized in India with fractured leg bones

There you go. Keep that 3rd world crap out of the civilized areas.


2 posted on 01/16/2017 3:23:58 PM PST by soycd
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
She got the infection undergoing a medical procedure in India.
3 posted on 01/16/2017 3:24:04 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It's a war against humanity!" Donald J. Trump)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
INFECTIOUS DISEASE PING !

Superbug bacterium with medication resistance causes a fatality (Sepsis)
Only known medication not yet approved in the U.S.

4 posted on 01/16/2017 3:24:17 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu-> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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Bacteria have rights too!


5 posted on 01/16/2017 3:26:39 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Only known medication not yet approved in the U.S.

The FDA's job is to keep us safe! /S

6 posted on 01/16/2017 3:27:25 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Open borders can lead to these kind of things...

A reason why in the day of Ellis Island about 10% were sent back home...


7 posted on 01/16/2017 3:27:44 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

This is some scary s—t, right here.


8 posted on 01/16/2017 3:28:04 PM PST by dfwgator
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They won’t be happy until half of the US has some crap like this!


9 posted on 01/16/2017 3:29:17 PM PST by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Yikes. So much for cheap medicine in India.


10 posted on 01/16/2017 3:30:51 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Talked to a lady visiting with people at an assisted living home, wearing a surgical mask, yesterday. Bronchitis for seven weeks, antibiotics aren’t helping. Bacteria are alive too and nature gives them a survival strategy a lot like ours. The survivors of whatever came along to kill a bunch of us pass along the who’s-it that made such survival possible.


11 posted on 01/16/2017 3:31:07 PM PST by katana
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Of course our glorious and ever omniscient benevolent government rejects certain meds that are useful in treating certain diseases.

ANd also poo-poohs the use of some non-fda approved substances that do well against infections and viruses because they are not drugs, so therefore by fda definition cannot cure disease.


12 posted on 01/16/2017 3:31:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Bacterium Lives Matter!!!


13 posted on 01/16/2017 3:31:45 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (I held my nose, voted for Trump, then took a shower. All to defeat evil.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
The FDA's job is to keep us safe! /S

Hey, if she took an antibiotic that hadn't been stringently tested, she could be dead ... oh, wait ...

14 posted on 01/16/2017 3:32:40 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

India, okay. That settles it.


15 posted on 01/16/2017 3:33:38 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE),
which is resistant to all antibiotics available in the United States.(Emphasis mine)

Maybe the humane thing would have been to have her treated with drugs from Europe,which would have helped her


16 posted on 01/16/2017 3:37:26 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Around 1985 my Daughter had a really bad sinus infection. The Dr. gave her Erythromycin but after a few days she was worse. He then added Cephalexin. After a couple more days she was not getting better so we took her to the emergency room.

The Dr. there did a throat culture and prescribed Penicillin. That did the trick. After maybe 3 more days she was completely well.


17 posted on 01/16/2017 3:43:08 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

bookmark


18 posted on 01/16/2017 3:51:34 PM PST by dadfly
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This will become a huge problem. We are going to return to the old days.

My father had MRSA; I washed my hands constantly when I visited him a few times this spring before he died.

He abused antibiotics; he was a lawyer and called up a doctor friend of his for ABs every time he got a cold (!) and stopped taking them when he felt better. Absolutely the wrong things to do.


19 posted on 01/16/2017 3:51:43 PM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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Yep.

That’s exactly what happened to my dad. He died of pneumonia and nothing was working.

Survival of the fittest...


20 posted on 01/16/2017 3:53:22 PM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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