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World Health Organization alarmed over spread of drug-resistant "superbug" | Raw Story

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The World Health Organisation on Friday called on health authorities around the globe to monitor a multi-drug resistant superbug that surfaced in South Asia and spread to Britain.

The WHO said research published in The Lancet medical journal on August 11 identified a new gene that enables some types of bacteria to be highly resistant to almost all antibiotics.

"While multi-drug resistant bacteria are not new and will continue to appear, this development requires monitoring and further study to understand the extent and modes of transmission, and to define the most effective measures for control," it added in a statement.

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As usual, one of the easiest ways to prevent the spread of the drug is simple hygiene, especially in hospitals. Hospitals I've been in seem strangely cavalier about infectious diseases. The one that introduced my spouse to a lifelong battle with staph infection told me that treating her surgery scars with Neosporin wasn't necessary, the nurse telling me with great condescension that studies showed it wasn't any better than leaving the wound covered and that anything else was just advertising pap.

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Reply#1 - Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:08 AM EDT
AmusedinVa

The WHO doesn't hold a whole of credibility right now after the alarms about the bird flu that never came and the great swine flu pandemic last year that never developed but officially ended a couple of weeks ago according to them. It leaves one wondering if the entire UN has any agency within it that is staffed with competent people?

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Reply#2 - Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:58 AM EDT
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