Superbugs cause millions of deaths a year
Plate with samples of bacteria not resistant to antibiotics
Superbugs are evolving from those that have always been with us and are beginning to become resistant to antibiotics.
Harvard researchers have developed a highly effective drug against superbugs
Superbugs cause more than a million deaths a year worldwide, 23,000 in Spain.
There are people who antibiotics They have no effect, and it is very likely that this is due to superbugsthose who became stable to antibiotics due to their abuse. In addition, its appearance may be associated with unsanitary living or working conditions, as well as with eating foods that have been handled improperly. Researchers Harvard A very effective medicine has been developed for them in the laboratory. It now needs to be tested in patients, but this is an important step.
Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn, a microbiologist and advisor to the WHO, comments that superbugs are not new bacteria, they are bacteria that evolve from those that have always been with us and are starting to become resistant to antibiotics. He adds that superbugs survive because they have evolved several support mechanisms antibiotics, perhaps this is due to the fact that they develop a kind of shields or because they missed the medicine and then kick out quicklye from the inside.
In some sample plates with bacteria and antibiotics, show how there are tablets with antibiotics, of which bacteria stay longer far in case it affects them. But, showing a sample plate with superbugsit has been noticed that they even in touch with an antibiotic. If the antibiotics do not work on the patient, he may die.
If you become infected with pan-resistant bacteria, you are only dependent on your immune system.
Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn also says that such an increase in cases occurs when a patient is admitted to the hospital for something seemingly trivial, but if he becomes infected with a bacteria pan-resistant to antibiotics on which you are completely dependent your own immune system to fight infection. Every year the number of deaths from superbugs increases, reaching million deaths every year all over the world and 23,000 only in Spain.
It was named ‘silent pandemic’cause it moves fast. If five years ago these superbugs practically did not exist, today there are quite a lot of them. The fight against superbugs is being carried out in several directions: the creation of new antibiotics, new vaccines or the use bacteriophage viruses (feed on bacteria). For 2050 They are expected to cause 10 million deaths year.