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Woman Killed by a Superbug Resistant to Every Available Antibiotic

posted by on Sunday January 15 2017, @01:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the bleach-doesn't-count dept.

AnonTechie writes:

If it sometimes seems like the idea of antibiotic resistance, though unsettling, is more theoretical than real, please read on.

Public health officials from Nevada are reporting on a case of a woman who died in Reno in September from an incurable infection. Testing showed the superbug that had spread throughout her system could fend off 26 different antibiotics.

"It was tested against everything that's available in the United States ... and was not effective," said Dr. Alexander Kallen, a medical officer in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of health care quality promotion. Although this isn't the first time someone in the US has been infected with pan-resistant bacteria, at this point, it is not common. It is, however, alarming.

[Source]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/woman-killed-by-a-superbug-resistant-to-every-available-antibiotic/

[Journal Ref.]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6601a7.htm

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 15 2017, @02:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 15 2017, @02:41PM (#454084)

    it can digest lactose?
    So just cough on some milk, let it stand around so that that multiplies and gets lazy until some phage discoveres the mono culture and devestates it ... then drink the "ugly"  milk and all the fat phages?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Dunbal on Sunday January 15 2017, @04:48PM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Sunday January 15 2017, @04:48PM (#454112)

    Beta lactam ring =/= lactose. Zero chemical relation.