Nightmare bacteria has resistant to antibiotics. What is worse than that? This bacteria has the potential to spread their resistance to other germs in the body.
Researchers found that last year, there was about 200 cases of these "Nightmare bacteria" but in new research report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) these bacteria have popped up all over country in 27 states. It has increased up to 200 times.
This problem mostly strikes people who are in hospitals and nursing homes. In many cases, people who are in close contact with these patients also got infected with this bacteria, even though they were not sick.
Infection from this bacteria are "virtually untreatable with modern medicine," CDC Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat said in a press briefing Tuesday.
Researchers found that last year, there was about 200 cases of these "Nightmare bacteria" but in new research report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) these bacteria have popped up all over country in 27 states. It has increased up to 200 times.
This problem mostly strikes people who are in hospitals and nursing homes. In many cases, people who are in close contact with these patients also got infected with this bacteria, even though they were not sick.
Infection from this bacteria are "virtually untreatable with modern medicine," CDC Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat said in a press briefing Tuesday.
CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook reports that the death rate can be as high as 50 percent.
"For the first time in 2017 there was a nationwide survey and they found that infections from these kinds of bacteria were more common than expected," LaPook said.
Preventing these bugs from spreading is essential to controlling the antibiotic resistance crisis, the CDC says.
The CDC defines "unusual resistance" as germs that cannot be killed by all or most antibiotics and are currently uncommon in the U.S.
The researchers have come up with an strategy that can help to identify track and contain these germs, which appears to help stop their spread.
"We are working to get in front of them before they do become common," Dr Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director of CDC.
Some of the sick patients had traveled for surgery or other health care to another country where these drug resistant germs are more common, and the superbug infection was discovered after they returned to the US.
Precautions to be taken by Common man(suggested by CDC)
If you recently had health care in another country, immediately consult your doctor.
Wash your hands regularly and keep cuts clean until healed
Precautions to be taken by hospitals (suggested by CDC)
Wash hands with soap and water or an alcohol based sanitizer.
Carefully clean and disinfect medical rooms and equipments.
Only prescribe antibiotics when necessary.
Remove temporary medical devices as soon as possible.
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