Director's Briefing: CRE Infections and Antibiotic Resistance

In this Director's Briefing video, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden talks about drug-resistant bacteria called CRE. These bacteria pose a triple-threat: especially deadly, outsmarting our best antibiotics, and easily transfer their resistance to other germs. Patients are left with extremely limited, and in some cases, no treatment options. This Vital Signs (www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns) reports that CRE are spreading in U.S. medical facilities. More normal bacteria are becoming highly-resistant CRE. These bacteria could be the beginning of the end of antibiotics, and the entire healthcare community must act now to stop them.

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[TheYellowcatt]

One of the major factors in the development of antibiotic resistance is the continued use in some countries of low level non therapeutic antibiotics as livestock growth promoters.

This misuse of antibiotics should be banned world wide.

[Doris S Wheeler]

Thank you!