New Delhi: At least two cases of a resistant strain of gonorrhoea have hit Hawaii, according to health officials quoted in a report in the Mail Online. The strains are called the 'sex superbug', the Mail said quoting Hawaii News Now reports.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked Congress for $50 million to find a new antibiotic to treat the drug-resistant strain of the disease. The first case in the nation was identified in a young woman in Hawaii in May, 2011, the report said.
The 'sex superbug' is called H041 and was first discovered in Japan in 2011. It spread to Hawaii, and has even surfaced in California and Norway, the Mail said.
What's alarming is, doctors are warning that the antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhoea, now considered a superbug, has the potential to be as deadly as the AIDS virus, said the Mail. Gonorrhea is the second most commonly reported ...
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09:25 AM, May 07, 2013
Mumbai: British scientists conducting a study on superbugs in London have discovered that a highly rare genetic fusion is to blame for the superbug NDM1. This fusion has given NDM1 the power to easily jump between various species of bacteria at a superfast speed, consequently making it drug resistant. The scientists, who first reported the NDM1 last year, have now found that NDM1, by jumping between bacteria strains, can make...
10:06 AM, Feb 13, 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
New Delhi: Downplaying the threat of superbug in city hospitals, Delhi Health Minister AK Walia on Friday said the prevalence of the infection is "very low" and cannot be termed "alarming". "There is a very low prevalence of NDM1 infection (New Delhi Metallo beta lactamase) which exists as confirmed in tests conducted in ICUs of a number of hospitals. It is between the range of 0.04 per cent to 0.08...
05:27 PM, Oct 07, 2011
New Delhi: India is hosting a global summit on antibiotic resistance in the Capital this week. This comes post the NDM1 superbug controversy which had put the spotlight on hospital acquired infections. Hospital acquired infections are a dangerous trend that has doctors in India worried. Dr Gaurav Gupta said, "We may treat the patient for the disease he has - but he may die of the infection he got inside...
08:51 AM, Oct 03, 2011
London: For the first time, scientists have found a "superbug" strain of gonorrhoea, resistant to all recommended antibiotics, which they fear could turn a once easily treatable sexually-transmitted disease into a global public health threat. The new strain of the disease, called H041, was found in Japan and leaves doctors with no other option than to try untested medicines to combat it. The analysis of the strain showed that it...
06:21 PM, Jul 11, 2011
New Delhi: In a major development on the fight against the NDM-1 superbug, a Swiss company, Basilea Pharmaceutical, has announced that its un-named drug has proved effective against the bacteria in lab tests. Currently the NDM-1 bacteria is resistant to all known forms of antibiotics. The New Delhi Superbug (NDM-1 bacteria) has been found in water samples in the capital, according to a study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases...
09:11 AM, May 10, 2011
Mumbai: After the panic the Lancet article about the NDM-1 superbug created in the Capital, an ongoing two month long study being carried out by Pune's Sassoon Hospital and the National Centre of Cell Sciences has alarming findings. Taking blood and urine samples of more than 3000 patients, scientists at Sassoon Hospital found multi-drug resistance in 66 per cent people and 181 were resistant to the highest level of antibiotics,...
09:51 AM, Apr 29, 2011
Mumbai: Reports on the NDM 1 super-bug have not gone down well with the Health Ministry but have brought our attention to the need for a policy to regulate antibiotic use, to curb drug-resistance in bacteria. And now, the 13 member task force, set up by the Health Ministry, has completed its draft National Policy for Containment of Antibiotic Resistance which is waiting for Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad's approval....
08:46 AM, Apr 21, 2011
Mumbai: Reports on the NDM 1 super-bug have not gone down well with the Health Ministry but have brought our attention to the need for a policy to regulate antibiotic use, to curb drug-resistance in bacteria. And now, the 13 member task force, set up by the Health Ministry, has completed its draft National Policy for Containment of Antibiotic Resistance which is waiting for Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad's approval. ...
08:46 AM, Apr 21, 2011
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11:39 PM, Apr 13, 2011
Dr R Laxminarayan and Dr Devi Shetty speak to CNN-IBN about Lancet Journal's NDM-1 superbug study. ...
10:02 PM, Apr 13, 2011
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...
08:42 PM, Apr 13, 2011
The New Delhi superbug has been found in water samples in the capital according to a study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit however said that there is no superbug and people should not spread panic. The Indian government will now conduct its own study on the issue. CNN-IBN asks, 'Are we in denial over the Delhi superbug?'
04:07 PM, Apr 13, 2011
New Delhi: After denying the existence of NDM-1 superbug in water in Delhi, ever since it was first mentioned in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, the government authorities have finally decided to conduct their own studies. The National Centre for Disease Control has planned to conduct a study on the drug-resistant bacteria. A high level meeting was held with top officials of NDMC, MCD and the Director General of Health...
03:29 PM, Apr 12, 2011
The government has formed a scientific committee to look into the findings of the study. It is also working on the National Antibiotic Policy which includes restrictions on usage of third and fourth generation antibiotics, continuous monitoring of drug resistance cases and over the counter sale of antibiotics in pharmacies. ...
09:18 AM, Apr 11, 2011
New Delhi: The government has formed a scientific committee to look into the findings of the New Delhi superbug study. It is also working on the National Antibiotic Policy which includes restrictions on usage of third and fourth generation antibiotics, continuous monitoring of drug resistance cases and over the counter sale of antibiotics in pharmacies. The New Delhi superbug has been found in water samples in the capital, according to...
09:11 AM, Apr 11, 2011
New Delhi: The New Delhi Superbug has been found in water samples in the capital, according to a study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. British researchers found the NDM-1 Superbug in 2 of 50 tap water samples and 51 of 171 samples of water from puddles in Delhi. The big question is, does that leave us at risk of infection from bacteria carrying this drug-resistant gene? "The answer...
11:20 AM, Apr 08, 2011
London: A gene that makes bugs highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in bacteria in water supplies in New Delhi used by local people for drinking, washing and cooking, scientists said on Thursday. The NDM 1 gene, which creates what some experts describe as "super superbugs", has spread to germs that cause cholera and dysentery, and is circulating freely in other bacteria in New Delhi, a...
12:43 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Boston: An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the world, health officials reported on Monday. The US cases and two others in Canada all involve people who had recently received medical care in India, where the problem is widespread. A British medical journal revealed the...
07:12 PM, Sep 14, 2010
