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Huayu News According to a comprehensive report from the US Chinese website, according to the latest CDC report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Drug-resistant “super bacteria” infect 2.8 million people each year and cause more than 35,000 deaths. This highlights a new and huge threat in the public health field, namely drug-resistant bacteria, which the CDC calls “post-antibiotics” era".
This report analyzes electronic health records and other data, and shows that infections caused by bacteria that resist antibiotic treatment occur on average every 11 seconds and every 15 minutes One death. The CDC said that the number of deaths due to antibiotic resistance has doubled from 2013 to this year. Even so, the CDC said the report may still underestimate this number.
In a letter accompanying the report, the director of the CDC, Robert Redfield, urged the public to "stop talking about the coming post-antibiotic era-it has arrived" and said that Drug-resistant bacteria are found in every state in the United States and around the world.
Redfield wrote: "You and I live in an era where miracle drugs can no longer perform miracles, and the family is being divided by microscopic enemies. The evolution of certain bacteria has surpassed us."
This report establishes new standards for infection and death caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and classifies emerging threats as urgent, serious or worrying. The report emphasized that health officials must follow strict regulations on the use of antibiotics, and also called on the public to increase their vigilance against the abuse of antibiotics. The report identified 18 species of bacteria and fungi and required public health officials to strictly monitor them, including 5 bacteria described as "emergency threats."
These threats include two newly emerging bacteria: Candida auris (a drug-resistant fungus that began to spread among patients in hospitals and nursing homes in the United States in 2015), and carbapenem (Capapenem). ) Drug-resistant Acinetobacter, which may cause pneumonia and other infections in the intensive care unit of the hospital.
The other three threats include "nightmare bacteria", which are resistant carbapenem Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, and Clostridium difficile (C. difficile). It is a common infection-causing bacteria in hospitals and long-term care facilities.
If death caused by infection caused by Clostridium difficile is included, the number of deaths each year will become very alarming. This infection is rarely resistant to antibiotics, but can cause fatal diarrhea, and is often diagnosed in people taking antibiotics. According to the report, more than 223,000 people were infected with the bacteria in 2017, and about 12,800 people died.
In addition to the bacteria currently circulating in the United States, the report also identified three surveillance lists of bacteria that may spread in the United States in the future and cause major diseases and deaths.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also described the progress made in combating superbugs, especially as the awareness of hospitals and medical service providers has increased. From 2012 to 2017, the number of deaths in hospitals due to antibiotic-resistant infections dropped by 28%.
Infectious disease expert Greg Frank of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization said that the report showed that the threat of resistance to this drug by health officials has risen to new heights, indicating that this is a good progress, but he still It is believed that some cases may be missed. He cited a hypothetical example, assuming that a cancer patient died after infection with drug-resistant bacteria, and the cause of death may be classified as cancer.
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine estimate that drug-resistant infections can kill up to 162,000 Americans each year. (Original title: CDC: "Super bacteria" kills 30,000 Americans every year. We have entered the "post-antibiotic era")
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Source: U.S. Chinese Net
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