“Every 15 minutes, one person dies”: about the beginning global epidemic of superinfection

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American Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that talks about drug resistant microbial preparations. About 3 are affected by these germs every year. million Americans, of whom 35 thousand die. The experts talk about the new threat that resilient to antibiotic bacteria. This was reported by the information publication Science Alert.

According to experts, every eleven seconds is resistant one person is infected with the bacterium, and every fifteen minutes one a person dies from an untreatable infection. Wherein experts emphasize that over the past thirty years there have been no not a single new type of antibiotic has been developed, however mortality nevertheless managed to reduce superinfection by 30% due to improvement methods for identifying pathogenic organisms in medical institutions, where infections usually spread.

Scientists talked about the most dangerous microbes, including: Clostridioides difficile, which are fatal on the body in conditions of dead intestinal microflora due to the use of antibiotics; gonorrhea and enterobacteria. They all have resistance to almost all classes of antibiotics and kill almost half the infected people.

To reduce the risk of infection, experts recommend compliance hand hygiene, properly handle food, regularly get vaccinated and follow the rules of safe sex.

Scientists previously reported that the real mortal danger to humanity is not epidemics, but ordinary infections that today do not take seriously. It is very likely that soon in In medical cases, the cause of death will indicate a runny nose or tonsillitis.

Andrey Vetrov

Epidemics

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