An anonymous reader quotes UPI:
A Nevada woman in her 70s who’d recently returned from India died in September from a “superbug” infection that resisted all antibiotics, according to a report released Friday… The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “basically reported that there was nothing in our medicine cabinet to treat this lady,” report co-author Dr. Randall Todd told the Reno Gazette-Journal. He’s director of epidemiology and public health preparedness for the Washoe County Health District, in Reno… CDC testing subsequently revealed the germ was New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase — a highly resistant form of CRE typically found outside the United States.
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