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Subject: More Illness Unexplained
Date: December 6, 2005 at 4:39 pm PST
http://www.rense.com/general69/ded.htm Deadly Bacteria Spreading
Through US Hospitals 12-6-5
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A lethal bacteria which surfaces in people
being treated with antibiotics is spreading in North America
and has grown resistant to drugs, according to two studies
published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
According to one of the studies, a new, virulent and resistant
strain of the bacteria Clostridium difficile broke out in
eight US hospital centers between 2000 and 2003.
Provoked by antibiotics inside the intestines of hospital
patients, the bacteria showed an ability to mutate and
increase its resistance to drugs, the report said.
Moreover, the bacteria, which infects the colon causing severe
diarrhea and colitis, a severe inflammation of the intestine,
has begun showing up in patients not taking antibiotics or
visiting hospitals.
Symptoms include watery, malodorous diarrhea and cramps.
A second study of 1,703 patients in 12 hospitals in Quebec,
Canada, demonstrated the lethality of the bacteria.
Over 13 years the incidence of the bacteria grew fourfold in
Quebec, and in 2004 it caused the deaths of 117 people in the
first month after they were diagnosed. All of the victims were
elderly.
"Hospitals need to be conducting surveillance and implementing
control measures. And all of us need to realize the risk of
antibiotic use may be increasing," warned epidemiologist
Clifford McDonald of the US Centers for Disiease Control.
Scientists were concerned that Clostridium difficile -- so-
named because of the difficulty in detecting it -- had become
very resistant to fluoroquinolone antibiotics usually used to
treat such infections.
"If this epidemic strain continues to spread (...) it will be
important either to reconsider the use of fluoroquinolones or
to develop other innovative measures for controlling C.
difficile-associated disease," said McDonald.
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