Illinois, California, and Massachusetts have all shown cases of the superbug NDM-1. This is a superbug a British health related journal had brought up last month and has entered the United States of America now. All three had lately spent time in India, where the superbug is believed to have originated. The first thought every person had was that medical tourism for British citizens going to India for inexpensive cosmetic surgery was to blame for NDM-1. Now scientists are concerned that NDM-1 can be a worldwide threat thinking about the American superbug victims were not medical tourists at all.
India where superbug United States attacks came from
Recently discovered cases of superbug infection in the United States of America, along with two others in Canada, involve individuals who received medical care in India. According to Red Orbit, there was a woman in California that got NDM-1. While in India, she got in a vehicle incident and had to receive health related care. The man in Illinois with the bug traveled in India when already having pre-existing medical conditions requiring him to have a urinary catheter. In Massachusetts, a woman from India had surgery and chemotherapy there before traveling to the United States of America. All of the victims survived although the superbug wouldn’t die with antibiotics that are meant to treat drug-resistant attacks. The first person to really die from the NDM-1 superbug was a Belgian man who was in an auto incident and hospitalized in Pakistan.
Could the superbug be a global threat?
Lancet, a British medical journal, recorded all cases of Britons who went to India for cheap plastic surgery and came home with cases of NDM-1. Scientists within the article explain that the gene that NDM-1 is mutates bacteria so it can start to resist all bacteria. In India, there is a lot of bacteria, says CBS News, carrying the NDM-1 gene. Bangladesh and Pakistan are also showing increase numbers of the NDM-1 gene. Anybody going to the undeveloped nations seems to be picking up the superbug and bringing it along with them.
India is overpopulated
Right now, medical specialists are all together in Boston at the international meeting of microbiologists and doctors. In this meeting, the NDM-1 is being discussed because of the concern of how numerous individuals in India really have it. The Boston Herald talks about antibiotics in India. Evidently you can get them over the counter for cheap prices. Deadly bacteria start to become resistant as a result of this ability to use it. Germs grow in the gut which is why NDM-1 spreads quickly places there is poor sanitation. Timothy Walsh, one of the authors of the Lancet article, told the Boston Herald that the overpopulated, unsanitary conditions in India are going to make the superbug spread widely. The superbug needs six to eight antibiotics to fight it off. Unfortunately, right now, only a couple of them work.
Red Orbit
redorbit.com/news/health/1916458/superbug_found_in_3_us_states_global_response_needed/
CBS News
cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20016335-10391704.html
Boston Herald
boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/09/14/superbug_patient_treated_at_mgh/
