NDM-1 Superbug

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British researchers face recently stated that a newly-identified gene mutation may be responsible for a new class of drug-resistant superbugs. According to ABC News, researchers say a group of plastic surgery patients who traveled from India or Pakistan back to Great Britain returned carrying bacteria which has an antibiotic-resistant "superbug gene" known as NDM-1. NDM-1 stands for New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase. AFP quotes researchers as saying that a "new class of superbugs...could spread worldwide." ''The New York Times'' quotes experts calling the gene mutation "worrying" and "ominous."

According to AFP, researchers first discovered the NDM-1 gene in 2009 in a Swedish patient who was hospitalized in India. Scientists are said to be especially concerned because NDM-1 bacteria are resistant to even the strongest, broad-spectrum antibiotics reserved to treat "multi-drug resistant bugs." In a article from the journal The Lancet, researchers in Britain noted that NDM-1 "can easily be transferred into common bacteria such as E. Coli." Once the NDM-1 transfer onto the bacteria, they can "easily spread and diversify." The Lancet piece notes that researchers have found patients in several countries, including the U.S., Netherlands, Australia and Canada, who were found to have "bacteria susceptible to the NDM-1 superbug gene." Scientists have said that NDM-1 "was impervious to all antibiotics except two."

In The Lancet, scientists conclude that "The potential of NDM-1 to be a worldwide public health problem is great, and co-ordinated international surveillance is needed." However, regarding the severity of the bug, as Dr. Martin J. Blaser of New York University says in his interview with the New York Times, "it's too early to judge."

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[toiwin]

Question, how do two bacteria that live in the gut and are harmless to us for 1000s of years, suddenly start joining forces to fight us...... Not possible. Again another man made bug to keep population down to 500 million, that is half a billion, see the georgia guidestones for law number 1

[xhirtam]

another viral campain ¬_¬

[bootsnbolts]

monsanto/gmo.

[BLUERAY1611]

May 30: Canadian doctors announced today that multi-drug resistant bacteria,isolated the bacteria from an 86-year-old man who has not travelled outside Ontario for at least the past 10 years and has had no obvious contact with anyone with a history of travel to India.

WEAPON OF MASS DISCEPTION.

CALL IT CANADIAN SUPER BUG

[vsktube]

When patients approach the doctor they are usually prescribed frontline antibiotics in countries like India. . If antibiotics are prescribed in a systematic manner as given by the rule of the book, there will be many failure cases after the first visit. doctor cannot afford the patient to come back a second time for the same problem. Because the patients will complain that the doctor is making extra money on the extra visits or that he is a inefficient doctor.

[vsktube]

The Biggest problem with antibiotic resistance is lack of awareness or a non chalant attitude towards it by GPs that new drugs will somehow pop up before resistance develops. What would happen when no new drug is there in pipeline? What should be the Threat level at any point of time. It is 'Panic'!!! So much panic should be made in the media that it should seem like some bomb is dropped. Only then will the authorities make it high priority to design policies aimed at controlling resistance.

[youngfreeze121]

@ancientmariner1984 oh and pharmaceutical companys dont make money off your good health they make money off your illness and even then what you get from your doctor dont do shit to help and in most cases make you feel worse i know of heaps of people that went for there regular flu shot and they felt like shit for weeks all the time until they stopped getting them so doctors and all these fancy illness consultants dont know jack shit they cant stop a natural mutating virus

[youngfreeze121]

most diseases like cholera that spread in india are all generated from filthy living standards no clean water no properly disposed urine and human waste and melnutrition thats where they all stem from but the real danger is when those diseases spread out of india they can mutate with other diseases 300 kids from hati who have cholera have been shipped over to france to live WHAT A DUMB IDEA they still have cholera and there gonna spread it all over europe cuz of one very very stupid decision

[Rainbowtardiful]

I think I have this :C I've been sick for a week now. D:

[euyooo]

@toiwin

go and read a little bit !!!

these bacteria in the gut are usually not harmful, they are even helpful in digestion and vitamin breaking but sometimes they can become pathogenic due to the translation of plasmids from other pathogens.

they also be indirect pathogen, like when produciting enzymes to activate the antibiotics which were supposed to fight other bacteria in the system.

many ways they can turn against u