Welsh scientists have spoken of the growing public health emergency in India after discovering antibiotic-resistant superbugs in the drinking water supply.
The Cardiff University team that discovered the NDM-1 gene that creates the new breed of superbugs said some of the resistant bacteria found in New Delhi could cause dysentery and cholera.
From Walesonline.co.uk:
Their findings emerged as the World Health Organisation today said there was less than a handful of antibiotics currently in the pipeline to combat these types of superbugs.
It added that the worldwide spread of genes resistant to last-resort antibiotics, like NDM-1 which has been already been found in people in South Wales, is a “nightmare scenario”.
Professor Tim Walsh, of Cardiff University’s School of Medicine, who led the research in New Delhi, said: “We found resistant bacteria in public water used for drinking, washing and food preparation and also in pools and rivulets in heavily-populated areas where children play.
The discovery was termed as “extremely worrying” by the researchers.
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