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Breaking News: New SuperBug Makes Its’ Appearance

August 12, 2010

Just when the W.H.O. declares H1N1 Pandemic officially over, a new gene that allows any bacteria to become a superbug, labed NDM-1, has made  its’ appearance in India, Pakistan, and  now United Kingdom.  Spread of the virus has been linked to patients undergoing cosmetic surgery in India.  Doctors fear that the superbug gene that allows bacteria to [...]

Tagged as: Bacteria, Bacteria Transfer Drug Resistance, Drug Resistant Gene, E-Coli, Global Transfer of NDM-1, India, NDM-1, Pakistan, Pandemic, Superbug Alert, The Lancet Journal of Infectios Diseases, United Kingdom, W.H.O., W.H.O. Declares H1N1 Pandemic Over As Superbug Appears

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If H1N1 joins with the bird flu, pandemic may be much worse*

November 18, 2009

[Commentary printed by The China Post* ref. post Playing Chicken With A Nightmare Flu by Alan Sipress The Washington Post] When swine flu erupted this spring in the southwestern United States and Mexico, it had been 40 years since the last flu pandemic. The outbreak has dispelled any illusion that pandemic influenza belonged to a bygone [...]

Tagged as: Africa and flu, Asia and Flu, CDC, Egypt, Keiji Fikuda, Margaret Chan, Mexico, Pandemic, swine flu, Swine Flu and Avian Flu, U.S., Virus reassortment, W.H.O.

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