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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Super-bug NDM-1: first known fatality, more infections worldwide

Via Digital Journal :

" Brussels : A man in Belgium became the first known victim of the new super-bug known as NDM-1. While India complains about having been named as the bug's ultimate source, more countries are added daily to the list of where infections have been found.

An unnamed patient became infected while hospitalised in Pakistan and died in Belgium last June, a doctor from a Brussels hospital told Belgian media on Friday. 'He was involved in a car accident during a trip to Pakistan. He was hospitalised with a major leg injury and then repatriated to Belgium, but he was already infected,' the doctor said, according to the website of the Singapore based Strait Times.

The same article quotes Youri Glupczynski, a bacteriologist from the University of Leuven, as saying that "The epicentre of the presence of this bacteria seems to be India and Pakistan, but it appears through contact and travel, its spread is becoming wider."

Basic information about NDM-1, the initials chosen for India's capital New Delhi, has been provided in an earlier Digital Journal report, but at the time it was only known that 37 to 50 patients had been located in UK hospitals, most of who had previously been in medical facilities in India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh."

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