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4 in 10 chance that if you get infected with CRE bacteria you will die...
by cindywu123 14y ago
4 in 10 chance that if you get infected with CRE bacteria you will die...
- kirillzubovsky 14y agoThat's one nasty bacteria. According to the article, the worst part is that it contains a resistant strain that started migrated to other types of bacteria. So far, contained mostly at hospitals, might get outside and merge with more common bacterias. The plague is near?
- jacquesm 14y agoThe plague has never really left us. It's just being held at bay (barely) by anti-biotics and basic hygiene. On a long term scale bacteria have won over every other kind of life, there is little reason to assume that this will change in the future. This holds whether you look at them by mass, by number or by just about any other metric.
- rincebrain 14y agoNot precisely. 4 in 10 chance that if they notice you're infected, you'll die - doesn't count all the countless people who are infected but not immunocompromised, so their bodies keep the infections in check or actively destroy them.
- daeken 14y agoWhat's the sample size behind that? Because it doesn't seem like there have been that many CRE cases yet, and we don't know the condition of patients before CRE infection.
- ars 14y agoPeople who get sick from CRE usually have lots of other medical issues, and are weaker. They don't necessarily die from CRE itself. Also remember that CRE are not more virulent than non resistant forms of enterobacteriaceae, and those certainly don't kill 4 in 10 (although that family seems to have all the really bad bacteria like E. Coli, Salmonella, Plague and others).
- lgleason 14y agoIt actually does. Healthy people who get MRSA often end up fighting a long uphill battle. If you are in a hospital you are going to have a compromised immune system. When someone gets sepsis it is really nasty.
- shasta 14y ago10 in 10, the way you've phrased it