Dr MS Kanwar, senior consultant, respiratory medicine at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on why India is not being able to curb the incidence of TB cases.
Q. How bad is the situation MDR-TB and is there any possible cure coming in the near future? Asked by: ketan72
A. MDR-TB situation is getting worse in India. It is difficult to treat because of increased number of drugs and the relatively high toxicity of those combinations. We still cure them with fairly good success if the patient is able to tolerate the drugs for long enough time.
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05:30 PM, Dec 14, 2012
London: Mobile phones are actually filthier than toilet seats because they are never cleaned even after being handled by different people, thus swarming with germs, say researchers. Tests showed that up to 10 times the amount of pathogens which cause nausea and stomach upsets were present on a mobile phone than a toilet seat. Charles Gerba, professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, said during his ongoing experiments he...
04:01 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Bangalore: Popularly known as Black Kites and formerly as Pariah kites, the Milvus migrans is today a creature of the urban milieu, swooping and hovering over dead carcasses and inedible animal parts and inhabiting the densely populated areas of the city which has a high concentration of slaughterhouses, butcher shops and meat markets. A bird of the urban landscape, the Pariah Kites are basically scavengers, feeding mainly on carnivorous food....
01:52 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Washington: The claim by NASA scientists that they have discovered a new form of bacteria which thrive on arsenic has been disapproved by two new studies, which say the bugs can't substitute arsenic for phosphorus to survive. Two scientific papers, published in the journal Science, refuted the 2010 NASA finding that bacterium called GFAJ-1 not only tolerates arsenic but actually incorporates the poison into its DNA, swapping out phosphorus. "Contrary...
03:55 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Atlanta: A Georgia graduate student who has undergone multiple amputations as she fights a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection has been upgraded from serious to good condition, a hospital spokeswoman said on Monday. Aimee Copeland, 24, was hospitalized after cutting the calf of her leg in a May 1 fall from a zip-line strung along the Little Tallapoosa River near Carrollton, Georgia. Emergency room doctors initially released Copeland after closing her...
02:19 AM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: Two years after the NDM 1 superbug was first detected in the country, a new report suggests between 100- 200 million Indians might be carrying two deadly forms of superbug, ha-MRSA and ca-MRSA - said to be resistant to all available antibiotics, except for one that has never been tried, because of its potentially fatal side effects. Published in the German news magazine 'Der Spiegel', the report claims...
07:42 AM, Feb 07, 2012
London: The Earth's oldest fossils that show convincing evidence of cells and bacteria living in an oxygen-free world over 3.4 billion years ago have been discovered. The discovery has been made by a team led by Dr David Wacey of the University of Western Australia and including Professor Martin Brasier of Oxford University, according to findings reported in the journal Nature Geoscience. "At last we have good solid evidence for...
12:45 PM, Aug 22, 2011
London: Scientists have stumbled on 1,400 strains of bacteria lurking in the much overlooked part of our anatomy - the navel. North Carolina State University's Belly Button Biodiversity study found 662 unrecognised strains - which could be a unique new species. Researchers made their startling discovery after they asked 95 volunteers to permit microbiologists to take navel swabs. Although researchers found some 1,400 strains, 80 percent were identified as 40...
08:15 PM, Jul 10, 2011
Berlin: Germany has reported another death in Europe's E coli outbreak, bringing the toll to at least 44. The national disease control center said Friday that 43 deaths have now been reported in Germany, the outbreak's epicenter. Another person has died in Sweden. In its own update on Friday, the World Health Organization included a further death in the United States. However, it cautioned - as US officials also have...
03:16 AM, Jun 25, 2011
Berlin: New sicknesses are still being reported in the European E coli outbreak that has killed 39, but Germany's national disease control centre said on Friday indications are that the crisis is tapering off. The number of reported infections in Germany, the epicenter of the outbreak, is now up to 3,408, including 798 people who have developed a serious complication that can lead to kidney failure - about 100 more...
08:45 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Paris: Five children admitted to hospital in northern France after eating beef burgers infected with a strain of E coli bacteria are seriously ill, health officials said on Thursday, fanning fears of a wider outbreak. The officials said the bacteria did not appear to be related to the lethal strain of E coli that has killed 37 people and made 3,000 ill, most of them in northern Germany. Privately owned...
02:53 AM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: The new mutant strain of the E Coli bacteria has left 36 people dead including a 2 year old boy across Europe, infecting more than 3,000 people. It is suspected to have first originated from contaminated bean sprouts from Germany. Devashish Ohri of Life technologies said, This particular strain first surfaced about 10 years back. At that point in time it didn't spread and the mutation was of...
09:45 AM, Jun 16, 2011
Berlin: Germany's E coli outbreak claimed its first child fatality on Tuesday when a two-year-old died from the bacteria in the northern city of Hanover, taking the death toll to 37. German health authorities have linked the epidemic, the deadliest of its kind in modern history, to contaminated bean sprouts and shoots from a German organic farm sold to consumers and restaurants across the country for eating in salads. Germany's...
01:26 AM, Jun 15, 2011
Amsterdam: Dutch authorities recalled red beet sprouts from three countries on Thursday after samples were found to be contaminated with a strain of E coli bacteria that was apparently less dangerous than the one causing Europe's deadly E coli crisis. German health officials, meanwhile, reported that three more people died of the ailment on Thursday, raising the toll to 29 in less than six weeks. The Dutch Food Safety Authority...
02:00 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Berlin: Germany on Wednesday said the deadly E coli outbreak appeared to be waning as the government convened an emergency meeting of federal and state health ministers for the first time since the outbreak of the deadly infection over a month ago. Germany's new health minister Daniel Bahr admitted failures by the authorities and said there have been "too many speculations" which caused confusion among the public. The government has...
02:18 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Hamburg: First they pointed a finger at Spanish cucumbers. Then they cast suspicion on sprouts from Germany. Now German officials appear dumbfounded as to the source of the deadliest E coli outbreak in modern history, and one US expert called the investigation a "disaster." Backtracking for the second time in a week, officials Monday said preliminary tests have found no evidence that vegetable sprouts from an organic farm in northern...
01:57 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Hamburg: German-grown beansprouts could be the source of the deadly E coli outbreak that has killed 22 people, made more than 2,000 ill and struck fear into consumers across Europe, officials said on Sunday. The Lower Saxony state agriculture minister, Gert Lindemann, said at a news conference investigators had traced the rare, highly toxic strain of the bacteria to a farm in the town of Bienenbuettel, 70 km (40 miles)...
03:35 AM, Jun 06, 2011
Helsinki: The E coli bacterial infection is fast spreading across Europe, with one case diagnosed in Finland, Xinhua reported. The E coli infection was detected in the capital city of Helsinki, the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare said on Friday. The properties of the bacteria found in the patient were similar to those shown by the deadly bacteria in Germany. The patient had been on a visit to...
10:21 AM, Jun 04, 2011
Berlin: Racing to curb the spread of a killer food bug, Germany set up a task force on Friday to hunt down the source of a highly toxic strain of E coli that has killed 19 people and sounded alarms around the world. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, locked in a trade row with the European Union after banning imports of its raw fruit and vegetables, struck a dramatic note...
01:57 AM, Jun 04, 2011
London: A virulent new strain of E Coli bacteria that has killed at least 17 people in Europe may be the deadliest yet in human history, health experts said. Germany is at the centre of the outbreak, with more than 1,500 people ill from eating contaminated vegetables and salads, but the precise source of the new strain is not yet known. The highly infectious variant has never affected humans before....
07:03 AM, Jun 03, 2011
