Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Superbugs 2: Humans 0 Bottom of the 7th

Meaning that if fighting the spread of superbugs was a game like baseball, we are in big danger of losing soon, if we do not change our ways!
Amplify’d from www.wired.com

Highly Resistant Salmonella: Poultry, Antibiotics, Borders, Risk

Maryn McKenna
If you’re a strain of Salmonella, it’s a very good week. If you’re a human, not so much.
There are two stories occurring simultaneously that underline the rising danger of drug-resistant organisms in the food supply, and the porousness of networks for detecting the dangerous bugs in time.
Salmonella Heidelberg
“resistant to many commonly prescribed antibiotics,” according to the CDC
traveling on ground turkey
Salmonella Kentucky
has become resistant to fluoroquinolones such as Cipro, the drug usually used to treat Salmonella infections.
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