LONDON (Reuters) - A multi-drug resistant "superbug" from India first reported in Britain in August has now been detected in 12 more countries, a scientist at the EU's disease control watchdog said on Wednesday.
Dominique Monnet of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said he was very worried by the emergence of NDM-1, or New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase, and other bugs like it that are resistant to even the most powerful class of antibiotics, known as carbapenems.
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