People in Massachusetts, California and Illinois have shown up with NDM-1 which is a superbug that a British medical journal talked about last month. All patients reported to have earlier traveled out of the country to India where numerous assume the bug came from. British citizens had been trying to get cheap plastic surgery in India when coming home with the superbug which is why originally, the NDM-1 was blamed on medical tourism. Now scientists are concerned that NDM-1 might be a global threat thinking about the American superbug victims were not health related tourists at all.

Strong indications that superbug infection came from India to U.S.

Recently found cases of superbug infection in the United States of America, along with two others in Canada, involve people who received medical care in India. The woman in California that got NDM-1 had health related care in India after being in a vehicle accident, reports Red Orbit. In Illinois, a man with a pre-existing medical conditions and a urinary catheter contracted the superbug infection while traveling in India. In Massachusetts, a woman from India had surgery and chemotherapy there before traveling to the United States. In all three United States cases the superbugs weren't killed by antibiotics typically used to treat drug-resistant infections, but all of the victims survived. In Pakistan, there was a Belgian man who was in a vehicle incident and hospitalized in Pakistan. He was the first of the NDM-1 superbug victims to have a recorded death.

Threat coming from superbug to the whole world

Lancet, a British health related journal, recorded all cases of Britons who went to India for cheap plastic surgery and came home with cases of NDM-1. In the Lancet article, scientists describe NDM-1 as a gene that mutates bacteria to become resistant to the strongest antibiotics accessible. The NDM-1 gene is spread through all of India, says CBS News. Bacteria carrying the gene seem common. Bangladesh and Pakistan are also showing increase numbers of the NDM-1 gene. The superbug has found a way to get around the globe. It is hitching rides with anybody willing to go to the country and pick it up.

India has too many individuals in it

Right now, medical specialists are all together in Boston at the international meeting of microbiologists and doctors. In this meeting, the NDM-1 is being discussed as a result of the concern of how many individuals in India really have it. The Boston Herald talks about antibiotics in India. Evidently you can get them over the counter for inexpensive prices. If one were to use it inappropriately, it would then become more resistant. The deadly bacteria would become something we couldn't stop. Poor sanitation facilitates the spread of NDM-1, which thrives in germs that grow in the human gut. India is so unsanitary the superbug can spread more quickly. This comes from the Boston Herald who spoke to Timothy Walsh of the Lancet article. Although one or two antibiotics can actually work for the superbug, you will find nevertheless more that are needed to fight it.

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Red Orbit

redorbit.com/news/health/1916458/superbug_found_in_3_us_states_global_response_needed/

CBS News

cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20016335-10391704.html

Boston Herald

boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/09/14/superbug_patient_treated_at_mgh/