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Superbug: Neither Super Nor a Bug

ORIGINAL POST
Posted by Ed 14 yrs ago
THE GIST


* A new gene gives bacteria resistance to almost every antibiotic there is.


* The drug-resistant gene can jump between completely unrelated types of bacteria.



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COMMENTS
celerkines 14 yrs ago
This Gene is a threat to rival a Nuclear ATTACK! Or anything from the martians, or atleast so i think.


I think it has more to do with the such blind and off-hand over use of antibiotics. So such new strains may as well come from less tightly regulated places, as in this case india/pakistan.

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