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Reports of the death of effective antibiotics are no longer greatly exaggerated. The US Centers for Disease Control has reported that a woman in her 70s has died of overwhelming sepsis caused by a bacterium that was resistant to all available antibiotics.
The patient had acquired the infection as a complication of treatment for a fractured hip she received in India two years previously. So-called “pan-resistant” bacteria have been recognised in India and other parts of the developing world for several years and they are now being identified in the US.
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