Posted on 09/13/2010 4:39:56 PM PDT by TaraP
BOSTON – An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the world, health officials reported Monday.
The U.S. cases and two others in Canada all involve people who had recently received medical care in India, where the problem is widespread. A British medical journal revealed the risk last month in an article describing dozens of cases in Britain in people who had gone to India for medical procedures.
How many deaths the gene may have caused is unknown; there is no central tracking of such cases. So far, the gene has mostly been found in bacteria that cause gut or urinary infections.
Scientists have long feared this — a very adaptable gene that hitches onto many types of common germs and confers broad drug resistance, creating dangerous "superbugs."
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The CDC advises any hospitals that find such cases to put the patient in medical isolation, check the patient’s close contacts for possible infection, and look for more infections in the hospital.
Any case “should raise an alarm,” Limbago said.
If all else fails..Contact *Obamacare*
Let’s have more immigration from 3rd world countries. That’s the ticket./s
Based on the hysterical stories we hear each year, I'm beginning to think that scientists spend most of their time huddled up in stark terror contemplating "what ifs."
Now, now, now...just because one may be 3rd world doesn't mean that they are diseased and can kill us all. We must be tolerant and let them enter. /s
Now that swine flu is passe, they need to find something else to throw at the scaremongers.
Why do Americans even travel to these hell holes? They pick up diseases and bring them back into this country to infect Americans. Stay home and see the USA. Spend your money here and employ Americans.
We’re all gonna die vMMMMCDXL.
Guess I just file it after vMMMMCDXXXIX.
“A British medical journal revealed the risk last month in an article describing dozens of cases in Britain in people who had gone to India for medical procedures.”
Gee, why did people from the Britain have to travel to India to get medical care?
Socialized medicine strikes again.
I have to wonder how it is possible that a MINDLESS organism can adapt faster than beings endowed with intelligence can.
Maybe they went to India for ultrasounds and sex-selective abortions.
“all involve people who had recently received medical care in India, where the problem is widespread.”
Why am I not surprised that this superbug is thriving in India, where one village’s toilet is the next village’s water supply, and Bubonic plague is more than a footnote in the history books?
This indeed is very serious. It is the first time that a single gene can insinuate itself into the genome of each and every bacteria out there (not just one at a time.) I am in the medical field, and I can tell you this is indeed serious.
This is the consequence of not enforcing borders and letting every and any diseased Tom, Dick & Henrique stroll on in.
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