mham001 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3000 posts, RR: 3 Posted (8 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1251 times:
According to the Food and Drug Administration’s National Center for Toxicological Research, a virus was detected 4 years ago that creates resistance to nearly all antibiotics we use to treat infections. Originating in India and Pakistan, it is said to be already widespread there, even infiltrating New Delhi's water supply. So far, it has been detected in 12 new countries, all cases with ties to South Asia. India's reaction has been to claim that the story is motivated by Western jealousy of India’s growing medical-tourism industry.
Now it has been found in an unknown US cat (this article gives little insight into details). If it is now travelling in animals, it could indicate a very wide and fast spread.
...medicine views the emergence of this gene as a catastrophe, because it edges organisms to the brink of being completely non-responsive to antibiotics, as untreatable as if the infections were contracted before the antibiotic era began. And because the gene resides in organisms that happily live in the gut without causing symptoms, NDM-1 has been a hidden catastrophe, crossing borders and entering hospitals without ever being detected. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/ndm-icaac-3/
My first question, if it is as they say, are we seeing effects in India?
pvjin From Finland, joined Mar 2012, 535 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (8 months 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1224 times:
Not surprised really, a lot of stupid people seem to be completely overusing antibiotics which is great way to make these things resistant against them.
something From United Kingdom, joined May 2011, 1633 posts, RR: 24 Reply 2, posted (8 months 1 week 1 day ago) and read 1218 times:
Quoting pvjin (Reply 1): Not surprised really, a lot of stupid people seem to be completely overusing antibiotics which is great way to make these things resistant against them.
Aesma From France, joined Nov 2009, 4766 posts, RR: 9 Reply 3, posted (8 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 1112 times:
Yeah, there are abuses in western countries, but India has taken the problem to a new level, literally flooding its populace with antibiotics. And we will all pay the price.
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