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These are microbes that can withstand our most potent drugs and cause untreatable illnesses. Health experts believe it can invoke an “apocalyptic” threat that’s bigger than terrorism or climate change. That's because a superbug isn't necessarily resistant to all antibiotics. It refers to bacteria that can't be treated using two or more antibiotics. Reasons behind superbugs
We have ourselves created superbugs by doing indiscriminate use of antibiotics.
Survival of the fittest
Limited research in developing new antibiotics:
Poor Farming Practices
How it affects life on earth. "Antibiotics are the foundation on which all modern medicine rests. Cancer chemotherapy, organ transplants, surgeries, and childbirth all rely on antibiotics to prevent infections. If you can't treat those, then we lose the medical advances we have made in the last 50 years." Bacteria and other microbes can make us sick. But there’s a lurking danger with some germs that’s far more frightening than a bout of food poisoning or an infected wound. Today, drugs exist to fight most of these germs. They’re called antibiotics. Before these medicines came along, common infections frequently killed people. And that’s where the danger lies: What will happen if antibiotics no longer kill germs? Already some antibiotics have lost their superpowers. Many others are beginning to lose theirs. Biologists describe this problem as resistance. Across the globe, germs are becoming resistant to antibiotic medicines. In a sense, these “superbugs” have begun to laugh at those former wonder drugs. But resistance is no laughing matter. As germs toughen up against drugs that are supposed to kill them, treatable conditions such as TB — tuberculosis — can spread. And surgeries that rely on antibiotics could turn from life-saving to life-threatening. Solutions Know what we’re treating Create new drugs Change farmers’ practices Use viruses
Some known SUPERBUGS 1. MRSA (pronounced MER-sah). The letters stand for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Methicillin is a widely used antibiotic. And Staph aureus is a germ that can cause boils, food poisoning, toxic-shock syndrome and more. These bacteria sicken (and sometimes kill) by releasing potent natural poisons — called toxins — into the body. Despite its name, MRSA is resistant to far more antibiotics than just methicillin. That makes this superbug particularly nasty in hospitals and prisons. These are places where people often have open wounds or weak immune systems. Both increase a person’s chance of picking up an infection. 2.NDM-1 NDM-1 is an abbreviated way to write New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase, which is the name given to an enzyme discovered in 2009, which is able to be produced by several genera of bacteria that render the bacteria resistant to many antibiotics in common use around the world.
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