Scary stuff...there are some SERIOUS bugs out there, which don’t just cry uncle when they see some penicillin.
“””””””Scary stuff...there are some SERIOUS bugs out there, which don’t just cry uncle when they see some penicillin.”””
My son ended up in the hospital for what they thought was double pneumonia. Normal antibiotics weren’t doing anything so they thought some IV’s with stronger stuff would do it.
Lung tissue samples were sent all over the country numerous times including many times to the CDC in Atlanta.
NOBODY could identify it.
In the course of two and a half years, 300 days in the hospital, dozens upon dozens of doctors from many different specialties and finally a stem cell transplant they still aren’t sure what it is. He is now terminally ill with a brain tumor.
The world is a much smaller place than it once was. A superbug can get around the world in a day.