• Scientists find new superbug spreading from India
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[quote]A new superbug could spread around the world after reaching Britain from India -- in part because of medical tourism -- and scientists say there are almost no drugs to treat it. Researchers said on Wednesday they had found a new gene called New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase, or NDM-1, in patients in South Asia and in Britain. NDM-1 makes bacteria highly resistant to almost all antibiotics, including the most powerful class called carbapenems, and experts say there are no new drugs on the horizon to tackle it. With international travel in search of cheaper healthcare increasing, particularly for procedures such as cosmetic surgery, Timothy Walsh, who led the study, said he feared the new superbug could soon spread across the globe. "At a global level, this is a real concern," Walsh, from Britain's Cardiff University, said in telephone interview. "Because of medical tourism and international travel in general, resistance to these types of bacteria has the potential to spread around the world very, very quickly. And there is nothing in the (drug development) pipeline to tackle it." Almost as soon as the first antibiotic penicillin was introduced in the 1940s, bacteria began to develop resistance to its effects, prompting researchers to develop many new generations of antibiotics. But their overuse and misuse have helped fuel the rise of drug-resistant "superbug" infections like methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA). In a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal on Wednesday, Walsh's team found that NDM-1 is becoming more common in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan and is also being imported back to Britain in patients returning after treatment. "India also provides cosmetic surgery for other Europeans and Americans, and it is likely NDM-1 will spread worldwide," the scientists wrote in the study. "CINDERELLA" BUSINESS For many years, antibiotic research has been a "Cinderella" sector of the pharmaceuticals industry, reflecting a mismatch between the scientific difficulty of finding treatments and the modest sales such products are likely to generate, since new drugs are typically saved only for the sickest patients. But the increasing threat from superbugs is encouraging a rethink at the few large drugmakers still actively hunting for new antibiotics, including Pfizer, Merck, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis. Walsh and his international team collected bacteria samples from hospital patients in two places in India, Chennai and Haryana, and from patients referred to Britain's national reference laboratory between 2007 and 2009. They found 44 NDM-1-positive bacteria in Chennai, 26 in Haryana, 37 in Britain, and 73 in other sites in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Several of the British NDM-1 positive patients had recently traveled to India or Pakistan for hospital treatment, including cosmetic surgery, they said. Most worryingly, NDM-1-producing bacteria are resistant to many antibiotics including carbapenems, the scientists said, a class of the drugs often reserved for emergency use and to treat infections caused by other multi-resistant bugs like MRSA and C-Difficile. Anders Ekblom, global head of medicines development at AstraZeneca, whose Merrem antibiotic is the leading carbapenem, said he saw "great value" in investing in new antibiotics. "We've long recognized the growing need for new antibiotics, he said. "Bacteria are continually developing resistance to our arsenal of antibiotics and NDM1 is just the latest example." Experts commenting on Walsh's findings said it was important to be alert to the new bug and start screening for it early. "If this emerging public health threat is ignored, sooner or later the medical community could be confronted with carbapenem-resistant (bacteria) that cause common infections, resulting in treatment failures with substantial increases in health-care costs," Johann Pitout from the University of Calgary in Canada wrote in a commentary in same journal. [/quote] Source: [url]http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20100811/NEWS-US-INFECTIONS-SUPERBUG/[/url] :ohdear:
So antibiotics won't help? What if it infect your brain?! Zombie Apocalypse?
Oh yay, Swine flu V2.
Until it comes to America I'm not worried, it probably will though very soon [editline]11:26AM[/editline] Well I'm not really worried at all unless the fatality rate is 50% or higher hurp durp gimme dums cuz i dun worry about something that doesn't affect me that doesn't mean I don't care, and that also doesn't mean I expect not to get affected soon
quick, somebody alert Fox news!! [QUOTE=Wombo194;23990680]Already done, watch the video in the source.[/QUOTE] fuuu
[QUOTE=unnecessary;23990631]quick, somebody alert Fox news!![/QUOTE] Already done, watch the video in the source.
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;23990577]Until it comes to America I'm not worried, it probably will though very soon [editline]11:26AM[/editline] Well I'm not really worried at all unless the fatality rate is 50% or higher[/QUOTE] wow yeah half the worlds population is dead but i dont care look at me
[QUOTE=Smasher 006;23990568]Oh yay, Swine flu V2.[/QUOTE] Swine Flu 2: Electric Boogaloo - now with more widestream panic from people who live under rocks. [QUOTE=Isaiah Mustafa;23990692]wow yeah half the worlds population is dead but i dont care look at me[/QUOTE] A 50% fatality rate does not mean that one out of every two people will die. ...or is that mortality rate...
Of course it's from India.
[QUOTE=Seth2492;23990718]Swine Flu 2: Electric Boogaloo - now with more widestream panic from people who live under rocks. A 50% fatality rate does not mean that one out of every two people will die. ...or is that mortality rate...[/QUOTE] fatality = mortality wow
[QUOTE=Isaiah Mustafa;23990775]fatality = mortality wow[/QUOTE] Whatever, my point is that it doesn't mean that 50% of the worlds population would die.
[QUOTE=Seth2492;23990836]Whatever, my point is that it doesn't mean that 50% of the worlds population would die.[/QUOTE] yes but 50% of the people that get infected with the sickness would and that would be damn near 50% of people since most people's immune systems arent resistant to superbugs and still its incredibly fucking dumb to say 'lolol this dusnt affect me so i dont care :downs:'
MRSA hasn't killed us all yet, I don't see much of a problem with this. They could at least say how it's transferred.
[QUOTE=Isaiah Mustafa;23990898]yes but 50% of the people that get infected with the sickness would and that would be damn near 50% of people since most people's immune systems arent resistant to superbugs and still its incredibly fucking dumb to say 'lolol this dusnt affect me so i dont care :downs:'[/QUOTE] No disagreement there.
[QUOTE=Isaiah Mustafa;23990898]yes but 50% of the people that get infected with the sickness would and that would be damn near 50% of people since most people's immune systems arent resistant to superbugs and still its incredibly fucking dumb to say 'lolol this dusnt affect me so i dont care :downs:'[/QUOTE] Okay buddy, I'll just go freak the fuck out about something that doesn't affect me. Shut up, what am I going to do even if I care? If I were in some position to help people over there then yeah, I'd care, but I can't do shit so all I care about is my community and my country because it doesn't affect me in any way yet. [editline]11:45AM[/editline] BTW, get over yourself
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;23990577]Until it comes to America I'm not worried, it probably will though very soon [editline]11:26AM[/editline] Well I'm not really worried at all unless the fatality rate is 50% or higher[/QUOTE] Really? I'd be worried at 10% or higher.
I guess that too, but 50% would be a real problem
It looks like the Bug just bought Drug Resistance Level 4. I wonder if it will spread to Madagascar before the ports close.
Oh and Isaiah, where did I say I didn't care? I said I wasn't going to worry yet
[QUOTE=Dolton;23991049]Really? I'd be worried at 10% or higher.[/QUOTE] Even 1% is 60 million people all dead, which is a lot. But as I say, it's unlikely to be any more of a problem than MRSA.
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;23991011]Okay buddy, I'll just go freak the fuck out about something that doesn't affect me. Shut up, what am I going to do even if I care? If I were in some position to help people over there then yeah, I'd care, but I can't do shit so all I care about is my community and my country because it doesn't affect me in any way yet. [editline]11:45AM[/editline] BTW, get over yourself[/QUOTE] if this bug has a fatality rate of 50% then it's going to affect you whether or not you actually are infected
[QUOTE=Smasher 006;23991125]Even 1% is 60 million people all dead, which is a lot. But as I say, it's unlikely to be any more of a problem that MRSA.[/QUOTE] Well that's assuming it infects everyone ever [editline]11:50AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Lazor;23991131]if this bug has a fatality rate of 50% then it's going to affect you whether or not you actually are infected[/QUOTE] Well yeah, but that's why I said I wasn't going to worry unless either 1.) It's in America 2.) It has a large fatality rate 2 mostly
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;23991011]Okay buddy, I'll just go freak the fuck out about something that doesn't affect me. Shut up, what am I going to do even if I care? If I were in some position to help people over there then yeah, I'd care, but I can't do shit so all I care about is my community and my country because it doesn't affect me in any way yet. [editline]11:45AM[/editline] BTW, get over yourself[/QUOTE] [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Happy-wtf-leave1.jpg[/img]
If the cunts bothered to wash and be more hygenic then we wouldn't be having this problem.
How's about this, right now I'm like "Oh no I hope everyone is okay!" But if it were to come to America and have a particularly high mortality rate I would actually be SCARED
[QUOTE=Tetracycline;23990577]Well I'm not really worried at all unless the fatality rate is 50% or higher[/QUOTE] That is such a fucking dumb thing to say god.
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;23991469]That is such a fucking dumb thing to say god.[/QUOTE] I kinda exaggerated, get over yourself
This isn't worrisome because this specific kind of bacteria could do real damage to humans. Its mortality rate doesn't matter. They're worried because it possesses a gene that makes it immune to antibiotics, and [i]bacteria can exchange genetic material with others[/i] [editline]10:12PM[/editline] In fact it's more dangerous if it doesn't kill its host because that allows it to spread faster
Last year the swine flu, now this. [B]DOES EVERY YEAR SOME NEW SHIT APPEARS?![/B] :suicide: /caps
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;23991769]Last year the swine flu, now this. [B]DOES EVERY YEAR SOME NEW SHIT APPEARS?![/B] :suicide: /caps[/QUOTE] Yep. Bacteria evolve fast and spread fast.
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