“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.