Nevada Woman Dies from a Superbug Resistant to Every Available Antibiotic in the US
In mid-August, an unnamed woman in her 70s sought medical care in a Reno hospital for what turned out to be carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae. CRE are bacteria normally found in the gut that have developed resistance to the class of antibiotics called carbapenems, a last-line of defense for when other antibiotics fail. While she isn’t the first person in the US to be infected with pan-resistant bacteria, it is not common and it should worry us. Stories like this should be taken seriously by the medical community because they highlight our need for another solution. From the article: “The case involved a...
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