Taiwan's indigenous super germ defies all antibiotics.
Shih Wen-yi, acting director of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), called for calm yesterday as people began to fear there is an indigenous super germ that defies any and all antibiotics. Known as PDRAB, the super germ is all but indestructible. It may cause all kinds of complications, chiefly pneumonia. PDRAB stands for pandrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. So far infection has been confined to hospitals, Shih said. Mostly, weakened in-patients, many of them recovering from surgery, have fallen victim. Once infected, the victims often die simply because there are no antibiotics that could kill the PDRAB.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=22951
*PDRAB lives on catheters, it's got a 60 percent mortality
rate, it eats antibiotics for breakfast, and there's a iot of it around.
*I open Google news today, people, and what do I see...
Volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, carbombs,
and a Presidential debate! Maybe it's time that
the entire population of the planet took a two-week
vacation.
