India water samples show lethal germ

[Hafizzz]

India water samples show lethal germ
India water samples show lethal germ - The Boston Globe

LONDON — A deadly germ was found in about a quarter of water samples from drinking supplies and puddles on the streets of New Delhi — the latest evidence the drug-resistant bacteria, NDM-1, is circulating widely and could spread to the rest of the world.

The superbug can be treated only with toxic, expensive antibiotics. Since it was identified in 2008, it has appeared in the United States, Australia, Britain, Canada, and Sweden. Most of those infected had traveled to India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh.

“This is not a problem that is looming in the future . . . there are people dying today from infections that can’t be treated,’’ said David Heymann, of Britain’s Health Protection Agency.

Last fall, British scientists analyzed more than 200 water samples from New Delhi. They found the superbug gene in two drinking water samples and 51 street samples.

Since the bug was found in the United Kingdom last year, there have been about 70 cases of infection.

India rejects UK scientists' 'superbug' claim
BBC News - India rejects UK scientists' 'superbug' claim

 

[zsm5stealthbomber]

the tourists to india should be careful

 

[Hafizzz]

the tourists to india should be careful

But how to prevent tourist from India from carrying the germs to the outside world ?

 

[AvidSpice]

We were developing that bug for Biological warfare but somehow these bugs escaped from our laboratories!

 

[AMCA]

We were developing that bug for Biological warfare but somehow these bugs escaped from our laboratories!

I saw that running away from my shelf just a moment ago?? from which lab did it escape?

 

[zsm5stealthbomber]

But how to prevent tourist from India from carrying the germs to the outside world ?

they must be sterlized thoroughly before being allowed to land

 

[AvidSpice]

I saw that running away from my shelf just a moment ago?? from which lab did it escape?

DRDO and HAL

 

[AMCA]

DRDO and HAL

No wonder it was "Off the shelf" Stuff

 

[lionheart1]

I saw that running away from my shelf just a moment ago?? from which lab did it escape?

actually it ran away to Indus river, to hide in safe havens in our neighboring country ,

 

[Tractor]

Then pharmaceutical company make profit from treating this kind of lethal germ .

 

[IND151]

BS total BS . UK sees medical tourism in India as threat to its medical sector. if western patients come India, because here medical facilities are cheaper and good, western doctors and pharmaceutic companies will suffer. so they invented super bug myth.

 

[Spring Onion]

BS total BS . UK sees medical tourism in India as threat to its medical sector. if western patients come India, because here medical facilities are cheaper and good, western doctors and pharmaceutic companies will suffer. so they invented super bug myth.

The drinking water in India and Pakistan is one of the biggest contributor to stomach, liver diseases. Hepatitis C is the clear example of it.

 

[hembo]

they must be sterlized thoroughly before being allowed to land

He he he.. Good one mate!! I could hardly stop laughing by the posts here... carry on Emanuel!!

 

[Aramsogo]

THURSDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- A gene that helps bacteria resist nearly all antibiotics is present in bacteria in public water supplies in New Delhi, India, researchers have found.
The investigators are especially concerned because the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM) 1 gene has been detected in bacteria that cause cholera and dysentery.

NDM-1 now appears to be widespread in the environment and that points to the critical need for action to limit the global spread of NDM-1-producing bacteria, said Timothy Walsh, of Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, and colleagues.
The study authors tested the public water supply -- which is used for drinking, washing and food preparation -- by collecting samples from community waste seepage (pools that formed in public areas) and tap water in urban New Delhi. They found the NDM-1 gene in 51 of 171 seepage samples and two of 50 drinking-water samples. The gene was found in 14 different species of bacteria, including 11 species in which NDM-1 had not previously been known.
The study is published in the April 7 online edition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
"The potential for wider international spread of plasmids encoding NDM-1 is real and should not be ignored . . . coordinated, concrete and collective efforts are needed, initially to limit their widespread dissemination, and finally to combat this emerging threatening resistance problem," Mohd Shahid, of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Uttar Pradesh, India, wrote in an accompanying commentary.
More information

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has more about antibiotic resistance.

 

[tallboy123]

we haven't heard a single dead by that Bug in last 6 months....
Millions take healthcare in india everyday...But no one is affected....
I think we r sending there superbugs through planes to west and make them zombies Like resident Evil
UK is creating a new bug on their own..