Drug-resistant infections kill more Americans than AIDS and breast cancer combined. Technology companies are working hard to battle these micro-organisms. At this time the  SUPERBUGS are winning.

 Staphyloccus aureus



Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Premier pathogen causes 102,000 hospital infections
a year. Outside medical centers, a virulent new version
hits kids, sports teams and healthy adults. Some die
in days.

Clostridium difficile

Causes 400,000 cases of diarrhea annually. A new
mutation produces 20 times the toxin of the old
version. In a recent outbreak in Quebec, it infected
,703 patients; 33 had to have colon removed, 117
people died.

Klebsiella pneumoniae

Hospital-borne bug can infect the urinary tract, gut
and bloodstream. Resistant cases are up almost
50% in five years; untreated, two-thirds of patients die.
One outbreak in New York overwhelmed virtually all
drugs.Sources: CDC; Infectious Diseases Society
of America; American Association of Family Medicine

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE)

Especially hardy, infects the blood, urinary tract and
wounds of patients with withering immune systems.
Causes 10% of hospital infections.Sources: CDC;
Infectious Diseases Society of America; American
Association of Family Medicine.
 

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Causes deadly lower-respiratory infections in sick
patients. Is masterful at developing resistance mechanisms.
Responsible for 18% of hospital-acquired pneumonia.Sources:
CDC; Infectious Diseases Society of America; American
Association of Family Medicine.



 
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