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'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the immortal-infections dept.

An anonymous reader quotes UPI: A Nevada woman in her 70s who'd recently returned from India died in September from a "superbug" infection that resisted all antibiotics, according to a report released Friday... The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "basically reported that there was nothing in our medicine cabinet to treat this lady," report co-author Dr. Randall Todd told the Reno Gazette-Journal. He's director of epidemiology and public health preparedness for the Washoe County Health District, in Reno... CDC testing subsequently revealed the germ was New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase -- a highly resistant form of CRE typically found outside the United States.

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  1. Re:India = a bad place for vacations by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given how many good, interesting, and quite safe places there are to travel in the world, you'd
    have to wonder why people want to go to a shithole like India.

    Have you ever been to Nevada?

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  2. Re:Indians: if their food doesn't kill you, their by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    History lesson from someone that can't spell 3rd grade terms...?

    His first language is Floridian.

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  3. Re:Welcome to India by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in a cactus.

  4. Re:India = a bad place for vacations by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1, Funny

    "India is still a filthy third world country, with raw sewage flowing in the streams and rivers."

    Then again if you were born in India, and grow up with your immune system warding off the bugs, you will probably be able to leap tall buildings and shoot webs with your fingertips. Why waste your time giving Americans bad customer service from call centers?

  5. Re:Indians: if their food doesn't kill you, their by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Just FYI, Indians hate Muslims."

    That's not possible. Only white people can be racist. Everyone else on the world exhales fairy dust.