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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Europe in the grip of drug-resistant superbugs

By Reuters
Thursday, November 17, 2011

"...K. pneumoniae is a common cause of pneumonia, urinary tract, and bloodstream infections in hospital patients. The superbug form is resistant even to a class of medicines called carbapenems, the most powerful known antibiotics, which are usually reserved by doctors as a last line of defense...."

Shit. Didn't smallpox from Europeans friggin wipe out a huge portion of Native Americans a few hundred years ago?

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