Health officials express grave concern that the superbug could pose serious danger for routine infections if it spreads US HEALTH officials on Thursday reported the first case in the country of a patient with an infection resistant to all known antibiotics, and expressed grave concern that the superbug could pose serious danger for routine infections if it spreads."We risk being in a post-antibiotic world," said Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), referring to the urinary tract infection of a Pennsylvania woman who had not travelled within the previous five months.Frieden, speaking at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, DC, said the infection was not controlled even by colistin, an antibiotic that is reserved for use against "nightmare bacteria". The infection was reported on Thursday in a study appearing in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. It said the superbug it...
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