the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) American has just announced the death, last September, of a septuagenarian living in Nevada. The victim, who died of septic shock, was infected with the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae (Friedländer’s bacillus). A super bacterium that has resistant to 26 antibiotics existing.
This bacteria “is considered by almost all health authorities, including the World Health Organization, as an urgent threat to human health”said Professor Nick Thomson, director of the Bacterial Genomics Group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (UK). The death rate in people with an infection with this super bacterium is indeed close to 50%.
Resistance to antibiotics worries scientists
A super bacteria had been detected for the first time in another patient in the United States in May 2016 but fortunately, the patient was saved. A second case was reported by US virologists in June 2016.
According to scientists, in the United States alone, a 30% reduction in the effectiveness of antibiotics would translate into 120,000 additional infections each year after chemotherapy and 6,300 deaths directly linked to the bacterial infection.
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