Sometimes the worst catastrophes are arriving in silence and without being noticed , as happened with AIDS in the 80s, or with Ebola in Africa in the 90s.Instead, diseases that are they announce as potential pandemics, such as bird flu, which mobilized governments and enriched pharmaceutical multinationals, end up causing less damage than that caused by normal flu that attacks every year.
This may not be the case for the recently discovered superbacterium, and it is certainly the first warning of an international health disaster to come.
A SUPERBACTERY discovered that is resistant to all antibiotics!
In November 2015, it was discovered in China a strain of Escherichia Coli in pork and humans, with a gene, the MCR-1, which makes it resistant to all antibiotics developed by the human being so far.A few months later the presence of this bacterium was reported in Europe and Latin America, and in May 2016 the first case in the United States was reported in a patient with a urinary tract infection.
In principle it would not seem so serious, the E.Coli is an extremely common bacterium and one of the most studied by humans; is usually associated with poor hygiene conditions, contaminated food , and rarely leads to death (although it cannot be ruled out, due to carelessness or lack of medical attention).But it could be the warning of a crisis of greater proportions.
When the strain occurred in the United States, they tried to fight it with the strongest antibiotic developed in laboratories, the colistin .This medication stopped being used in the 80s because it damaged the liver and kidneys, and continued to be used in animals in countries such as China.After the emergence of bacteria increasingly resistant to current antibiotics, doctors have turned to colistin for use in human patients, but not even this one could against the superbug.

" We run the risk of finding bring us into a post-antibiotic world ”, declared Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, and for that we would have to imagine other more dangerous diseases with the MCR-1 gene: diseases such as gastroenteritis , which even today continues to kill thousands of children and the elderly in developing countries.
Increasing resistance to antibiotics by diseases such as tuberculosis, sifilis and gonorrhea, has been denounced for more than a decade, and if we add to this the emergence of a superbacterium of Escherichia Coli maybe the time has come to develop a new generation of medicines, before it's too late.
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