Medical vacations (India/Pakistan) & superbugs
Aug 11, 2010 18:59:40 GMT -8
Post by moabiter on Aug 11, 2010 18:59:40 GMT -8
New superbug, ‘potentially a major global health problem,’ found in Canada
August 11, 2010
Indeed, since NDM-1 was first detected in 2008 in a handful of British and Indian cases, it’s jumped to 180 in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the U.K. in the study. That doesn’t include the Canadian or www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5924a5.htmthree U.S. cases reported in late June by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Their ages ranged from 4 to 66, and the reasons for hospitalization included bone-marrow transplants, dialysis, heart disease, pregnancy, traffic accidents, burns and cosmetic surgery.
All of the infections, including the Canadians and Americans, started with hospitalization in India or Pakistan, sometimes for cheaper or quicker elective surgery than was available in the West.
Pitout revealed the Alberta case.
Sylwia Gomes, spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada, knew of the B.C. case reported in February “in a patient transferred from a hospital in India.”
“We've been aware of this situation for some time, and we've been closely monitoring it both in Canada and globally for the past year,” Dr. Howard Njoo, director general for the Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, told The Canadian Press.
www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/846397--new-superbug-potentially-a-major-global-health-problem-found-in-canada
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New superbugs emerge in U.K., Asia
Canadian cases reported in Vancouver, Alberta
British scientists have identified NDM-1, an enzyme that
turns bacteria into superbugs resistant to antibiotics, in 180
patients in the U.K., India and Pakistan. (CBC)
www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/11/uk-lancet-new-superbug.html#ixzz0wMBME29f
August 11, 2010
Indeed, since NDM-1 was first detected in 2008 in a handful of British and Indian cases, it’s jumped to 180 in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the U.K. in the study. That doesn’t include the Canadian or www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5924a5.htmthree U.S. cases reported in late June by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Their ages ranged from 4 to 66, and the reasons for hospitalization included bone-marrow transplants, dialysis, heart disease, pregnancy, traffic accidents, burns and cosmetic surgery.
All of the infections, including the Canadians and Americans, started with hospitalization in India or Pakistan, sometimes for cheaper or quicker elective surgery than was available in the West.
Pitout revealed the Alberta case.
Sylwia Gomes, spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada, knew of the B.C. case reported in February “in a patient transferred from a hospital in India.”
“We've been aware of this situation for some time, and we've been closely monitoring it both in Canada and globally for the past year,” Dr. Howard Njoo, director general for the Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, told The Canadian Press.
www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/846397--new-superbug-potentially-a-major-global-health-problem-found-in-canada
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New superbugs emerge in U.K., Asia
Canadian cases reported in Vancouver, Alberta
British scientists have identified NDM-1, an enzyme that
turns bacteria into superbugs resistant to antibiotics, in 180
patients in the U.K., India and Pakistan. (CBC)
www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/11/uk-lancet-new-superbug.html#ixzz0wMBME29f