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

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 14, 2017 @10:04AM 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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Re:India = a bad place for vacations by PopeRatzo · 2017-01-14 11:02 · 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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Re:Indians: if their food doesn't kill you, their by PopeRatzo · 2017-01-14 11:04 · Score: 4, Funny

History lesson from someone that can't spell 3rd grade terms...?
His first language is Floridian.

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Re:Welcome to India by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-14 11:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in a cactus.
Re:Indians: if their food doesn't kill you, their by Applehu+Akbar · 2017-01-14 12:32 · 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.