Drug Resistance Update

Drug-resistant bugs spreading in US and other countries.
USA Today (9/17, Sternberg) reports, "Bacteria that are able to survive every modern antibiotic are cropping up in many US hospitals and are spreading outside the USA, public health officials say." For instance, "Israeli doctors are battling an outbreak in Tel Aviv that has been traced to a patient from northern New Jersey, says Neil Fishman, director of infection control and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania and president of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiologists." These "bugs, reported by hospitals in more than 20 states, typically strike the critically ill and are fatal in 30% to 60% of cases."