What medical personnel and microbiologist have been fearing, may finally be coming to pass…
Some excerpts (Italicized):
An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the world, health officials reported Monday.
It's a great concern," because drug resistance has been rising and few new antibiotics are in development, said Dr. M. Lindsay Grayson, director of infectious diseases at the University of Melbourne in Australia. "It's just a matter of time" until the gene spreads more widely person-to-person, he said.
It's also why health officials are so concerned about where the threat is coming from, said Dr. Patrice Nordmann, a microbiology professor at South-Paris Medical School. India is an overpopulated country that overuses antibiotics and has widespread diarrheal disease and many people without clean water.
Lab tests showed their germs were not killed by the types of drugs normally used to treat drug-resistant infections, including "the last-resort class of antibiotics that physicians go to," Limbago said.
What will happen when a deadly infection starts to spread amongst the population, with no medicines to help? Panic? Fear? Would our health care providers continue to show up to work? Or would they abandon their posts much as law enforcement and medical personnel did after hurricane Katrina? Has our overuse of anti-biotic in everything from animal feed to the sniffles? What changes will we have to make for the sake of medicine? Who would we have to turn away if we have to start rationing medicine?
(ORIGINAL LINK) FOXNews.com - UPDATE: New Drug-Resistant Superbugs Found in 3 States
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