antibiotics

A deadly superbug resistant to all forms of antibiotics has arrived in the U.S. which researchers say may signal the “end of the road” for all antibiotics in the future.  Researchers detected the superbug in a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman who tested positive for carrying the deadly bacteria. Washingtonpost.com reports: Defense Department researchers determined that she carried a strain of E. coli resistant to the antibiotic colistin, according to a study published Thursday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology.

A new type of super bacteria resistant to all forms of antibiotics has been discovered, and it’s making its way around the globe, according to scientists. The bacteria, containing the MCR-1 gene, first showed up in China last November hospitalising 1,322 patients. It then moved to Denmark when a patient was diagnosed with an untreatable form of salmonella. Now the superbug is spreading to other parts of the globe, and scientists don’t yet know how to treat it. Myscienceacademy.org reports: The superbugs were also detected in Africa, and are believed to have traveled to Laos and Malaysia.