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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com)

A woman in Pennsylvania has contracted a strain of E Coli that is unaffected by all known legal antibiotics, including the antibiotics of last resort.

 We have had bacteria that were resistant, but this is the first bacteria that is completely immune.

 Such bacteria were known in China, but since the woman has not traveled recently it means she contracted it in the wild in the USA. 

 This is a major step toward the terrifying post-antibiotic world.

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