Govt playing down NDM-1 superbug study? New Delhi: The Indian government has reacted strongly to a study published in the Lancet Journal for Infectious Diseases that tracks the NDM1-superbug to water samples in Delhi.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday chaired a high level meeting and reiterated there is no cause for concern and yet has now been forced to set up a six month study of their own.

The study has been making the Indian health establishment see red.

"We are not denying that there is a problem, but just picking on one bug shows that the motives are unscientific," said the director general of Indian Council of Medical Research Dr VM Katoch....more    
08:42 PM, Apr 13, 2011