Monday, March 11, 2013

CDC warns of superbug 'nightmare' - Loveland Reporter-Herald

Another reason to get your faith built up in the indwelling Power of the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead who dwells in you as a Christian who has been born again:

What constitutes a "nightmare" to the Centers for Disease Control and Infection? These days, it's a family of bacteria that can't be treated with our most powerful antibiotics and kills half of those infected by it.

Even scarier, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae can transfer their resistance to antibiotics to other bacteria.

"CRE are nightmare bacteria," CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a news release. "Our strongest antibiotics don't work and patients are left with potentially untreatable infections. Doctors, hospital leaders and public health must work together now to implement the CDC's 'detect and protect' strategy and stop these infections from spreading."

And not just from spreading in hospitals, but also from getting into the community. The CRE infections so far have been confined to health-care facilities. 


CDC warns of superbug 'nightmare' - Loveland Reporter-Herald

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