Drug-Resistant Superbugs Sweeping Across Europe

Pierre Bezukhov writes "Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common cause of pneumonia, urinary tract, and bloodstream infections in hospital patients. The superbug form is resistant even to a class of medicines called carbapenems, the most powerful known antibiotics, which are usually reserved by doctors as a last line of defense. The ECDC said several EU member states were now reporting that between 15 and up to 50 percent of K. pneumoniae from bloodstream infections were resistant to carbapenems. To a large extent, antibiotic resistance is driven by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, which encourages bacteria to develop new ways of overcoming them. Experts say primary care doctors are partly to blame for prescribing antibiotics for patients who demand them unnecessarily, and hospitals are also guilty of overuse."

Comments

Progress!

[Gaygirlie]

So now we can train bugs to say no to drugs, next step is to move to animals and then finally humans!

Re:Develop ?

[somersault]

> > > which encourages bacteria to develop new ways of overcoming them.

> > which encourages bacteria to **evolve** new ways of overcoming them.

> which encourages god to design new ways for bacteria of overcoming them.

which encourages god to increase his research and development funding to develop evolution to allow new ways for bacteria of overcoming them.

It's the culture

[Nick Fel]

Bacteria on the continent are allowed a little antibiotics with meals even at a young age, so they grow up with a much more mature attitude towards it. That's why they're much better at handling antibiotics than British and American bacteria.

Re:I wonder

[Fuzzums]

It will just train bacteria to become alcoholics :)

Re:I think our etiology of antibiotic resistance i

[Pope]

I, too, base my health maintenance plan on comedy routines.