#Energy A deadly strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, dubbed “nightmare bacteria” by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has struck again. This time two people died and 179 were exposed to life-threatening carbapenem resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE), a deadly and often untreatable bacterial infection. Yet this is not a story about deadly bacteria and the need for new antibiotics; this is a story about bad medicine. The cause of the outbreak, like so many others, was improperly cleaned endoscopes used for diagnostic and medical procedures. In this case, patients were undergoing routine endoscopic examinations for their bile ducts, gall bladder and pancreas.http://ift.tt/1DB9CGY http://bit.ly/15KdByZ
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