(NaturalNews) Researchers from the "Extending the Cure" project in Washington, D.C., have published a report in the journal
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology about a new drug-resistant bug that is plaguing many hospitals. Called
Acinetobacter, this new "superbug" is causing severe bloodstream infection and pneumonia in many hospital patients.
The rise of hospital superbugs like
Acinetobacter continues to be a problem as these virulent new strains are not being eliminated by even the most powerful
antibiotic drugs. Imipenem, an intravenous
antibiotic drug that is typically reserved as a last line of defense against severe
infection, is not even capable of conquering this new strain of
bacteria.
Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan and his colleagues examined data from 300 U.S.
hospitals to see how the new bacteria was responding to imipenem. What they found was that between 1999 and 2006, there had been an astounding 300 percent increase in the number of
Acinetobacter cases that were resistant to one of the industry's most powerful antibiotic
drugs.
Dr. Laxminarayan worries that there will eventually be no effective
antibiotics available to treat these new super-bacteria, seeing as how the number of cases continues to rise with no effective
drug remedy in the pipeline. The bacteria is capable of colonizing patients' bodies while displaying little to no visible
symptoms, making it even more a concern among
hospital patients whose immune systems are already compromised. Many soldiers returning from the war in Iraq are coming down with
Acinetobacter as well.
Most people are aware of MRSA, the
hospital superbug that seems to continually be morphing into ever more virulent strains, however few realize that others like
Acinetobacter which currently have fewer effective remedies available, are potentially even more deadly.
Many researchers have concluded that the overuse of antibiotics is the primary cause of super-strains of antibiotic resistant deadly bacteria. Most conventional doctors commonly prescribe antibiotics when a patient exhibits any kind of prolonged
illness, even when the illness actually turns out to be viral rather than bacterial.
Rather than build up the body and fortify the immune system naturally, Western medicine has devoted itself to handing out antibiotics like candy which is destroying people's immune symptoms. Avoiding even
natural, highly effective antibiotic elements like colloidal silver, the
industry continues to press on towards the next new drug to treat the next new symptoms of illnesses caused by previous drugs.
Until perspectives toward health advance from drugs and surgery to natural and preventive, the disease mutation epidemic will continue to intensify.
Sources for this story include:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/174821.php
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