Maybe it wasn't just a movie....
"Doctors warn of new superbug gene; Threat may be spread by patients treated in India" by Associated Press | August 12, 2010
LONDON — People traveling to India for medical procedures have brought back to Britain a new gene that allows any bacteria to become a superbug, and scientists are warning this type of drug resistance could soon appear worldwide.
Related: Worldwide Waiting Room
Yeah, that was another dumb idea from the Boston Globe.
Though already widespread in India, the new superbug gene is being increasingly spotted in Britain and elsewhere.
Then stay the hell out of the hospital at all costs!
Specialists warn that the booming medical tourism industries in India and Pakistan could fuel a surge in antibiotic resistance, as patients import dangerous bugs to their home countries.
But if you say illegal immigrants bring them in you are a racist.
The superbug gene, which can be swapped between different bacteria to make them resistant to most drugs, has so far been identified in 37 people who returned to the United Kingdom after undergoing surgery in India or Pakistan.
The implication seems to be that those brown people are dirty, huh?
The resistant gene has also been detected in Australia, Canada, the United States, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
The researchers say since many Americans and Europeans travel to India and Pakistan for elective procedures like cosmetic surgery, it was likely the superbug gene would spread worldwide....
All over vanity?
Still, the numbers of people who have been identified with the superbug gene remains very small....
Oh, for a minute there I was worried and full of fear.
MSM yo-yo going back up!!
