– Drug-resistant ‘nightmare bacteria’ pose growing threat:
HUNDREDS of “nightmare bacteria” have been discovered in the US after an unprecedented nationwide hunt — and doctors say there is likely more.
“NIGHTMARE bacteria” with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort were found more than 200 times in the United States last year in a first-of-a-kind hunt to see how much of a threat these rare cases are becoming, health officials say.
That’s more than they had expected to find, and the true number is probably higher because the effort involved only certain labs in each state, officials say.
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