Sunday, January 15, 2017

A Nevada woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available antibiotic in the US (STAT)

If it sometimes seems like the idea of antibiotic resistance, though unsettling, is more theoretical than real, please read on. Public health officials from Nevada are reporting on a case of a woman who died in Reno in September from an incurable infection. Testing showed the superbug that had spread throughout her system could fend off 26 different antibiotics...
https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/12/nevada-woman-superbug-resistant/

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