Superbug spreads to Canada
Posted May 30, 2011 2:51 pm.
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Canadian researchers have identified what appears to be the first domestically acquired case of the superbug NDM-1.
The report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal involves an 86-year-old man who has not travelled outside southwestern Ontario for the last 10 years.
Prior to this, there had been eight cases of “New Delhi Metallo 1” in Canada involving people who had recently travelled to Pakistan or India.
NDM-1 has been found in the water in New Deli. One man in Belgium has died of it.
There is no antibiotic that is approved by the FDA or Health Canada that can kill this enzyme which alters the DNA of various types of bacteria, so health professionals end up chasing an ever-changing target. It’s not known if the man acquired the bug before or while he was in hospital recovering from a stroke last October.
For more information on NDM-1, click here and here.
