'Superbug' Alert As Resistant Gene Hits UK http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK...d_In_UK_Hospitals_Is_Resistant_To_Antibiotics The potential for wider international spread and for NDM-1 to become endemic 'worldwide' are clear and frightening. How many times we heard this one
This is quite concerning actually. Of course it won't become an epidemic like flu, but it means that people in hospital may end up with untreatable infections as there are very few new antibiotics on the horizon.