TV9 - "NDM-1" SUPERBUG IN DELHI WATER SYSTEM

TV9 - "NDM-1" SUPERBUG IN DELHI WATER SYSTEM............!


The Indian government has reacted strongly to a study published in the Lancet Journal for Infectious Diseases that tracked down the NDM-1 superbug to water samples in Delhi.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Thursday chaired a high- level meeting in this regard and said that there was no cause for concern.

However, the government has now announced a six-month study and patients to the emergency wards at selected hospitals in the capital, like Safdarjung and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospitals will be tested for resistance to this specific form of antibiotic.

If the results are positive, water samples around the hospital areas will be tested for the NDM-1 enzyme.

Timothy Walsh, one of the scientists working on the study, feels that the Indian government has vested interests in playing down the importance of NDM-1.

"One would not catch the bug by drinking water in Delhi, but there is a cause for concern. Bacteria carrying the gene that produces the NDM-1 enzyme are resistant to very powerful antibiotics," Walsh said here.

"We are not denying that there is a problem, but just picking on one bug shows that the motives are unscientific," Dr. V.M. Katoch, director general of Indian Council of Medical Research, said over phone.

The study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal stated that the NDM-1 enzyme was found in eleven different types of bacteria in Delhi, including those that cause dysentery and cholera.

"Earlier it was only one type of bacteria with NDM-1 gene, but now it is with cholera and bacteria as well, which basically means that we are losing the cheaper antibiotics that are available," Dr. R. Lakshminarayan, expert at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), said over phone.



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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