Superbugs are drug-resistant bacteria that can cause thick sores and blisters on the human body, and even cause muscle necrosis. The scary thing is that antibiotics don't work on it, and the patient will suffer from terrible inflammation, high fever, coma, and finally death due to infection. So what is the reason for its spread?
The scary thing about this germ is not its lethality to humans, but its resistance to common bactericidal drugs—antibiotics. There is almost no medicine available for this germ. In 2010, British media broke the news that a new superbug, NDM-1, had been discovered in South Asia and was extremely resistant to antibiotics and could spread globally.
1. Caused by the abuse of antibiotics. Researchers believe that the overuse of antibiotics is the cause of the emergence of superbugs. Antibiotics were once miraculous weapons for killing bacteria when they were first born, but bacteria have gradually evolved resistance to antibiotics. In recent years, superbugs that are resistant to multiple antibiotics have repeatedly appeared. Due to the relatively slow development of new antibiotics, dealing with superbugs has become a problem faced by modern medicine.
2. The power of “super bacteria” has weakened. The French National Institute of Medicine and Health reported on the 13th that a hospital in the country recently found bacterial strains with super drug-resistant genes in the skin sample of an injured person, but these strains were not very resistant to drugs. The injured person None were infected.
3. Normand, an expert at the institute, told the media that day that the doctor took a skin sample from an injured person while treating him, and later found that some bacterial strains in the sample contained super-resistant NDM- 1 gene, the patient was subsequently isolated for treatment. According to current information, the injured person was not infected with "superbugs" and his health condition is stable.
4. The reason why the NDM-1 gene has caused concern in the medical community is that some bacteria carrying this gene are resistant to antibiotics. However, the bacteria discovered in France carrying this gene are not effectively "resistant" to several drugs. French medical experts therefore appeal to the public not to panic.
The above is an introduction to the reasons for the spread of super bacteria.