Deadly NDM-1 ‘super-bug’ from India now jumps to Afghanistan

Posted on June 9, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

June 9, 2011 – KABUL — In the June 10 issue of the CDC’s weekly Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) they report of an incident of another antibiotic-resistant “superbug” in an overseas military hospital. For the past several years, military hospitals in the Middle East have been battling a very drug resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumanii, or it was affectionately known over there as “Iraqibacter”. Now it is reported that a strain of the gram-negative bacilli, Providencia stuartii, which possesses the NDM-1 gene, has been isolated at the US/coalition medical facility in Bagram, Afghanistan. The patient was an Afghan who was transferred from a hospital in Kabul. He suffered severe burns and respiratory injuries from a natural gas explosion. Just last week, doctors found a case of NDM-1 in Canada. -Examiner