Via HC2D :
" Doctors in Belgium have recorded the first known fatality of a dangerous class of superbugs that contain the New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) gene.
The newly-discovered gene makes the superbugs impervious to any known form of medical treatment.
Patrice Nordmann, who heads a unit specialising in antibiotic resistance at France's National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), said that the number of NDM-1 infections was bound to be far higher than the recorded tally.
The Belgian man, who is unnamed, picked up the bug during a hospital visit to Pakistan.
When the patient sought help at a hospital in Belgium, doctors tried using everything they could think of, including colistin, a powerful antibiotic."
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