Researchers from the “Extending the Cure” project in Washington, D.C., have published a report in the journal

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology about a new drug-resistant bug that is plaguing many hospitals. Called

Acinetobacter, this new “superbug” is causing severe bloodstream infection and pneumonia in many hospital patients.

The rise of hospital superbugs like

Acinetobacter
continues to be a problem as these virulent new strains are not being
eliminated by even the most powerful antibiotic drugs. Imipenem, an
intravenous antibiotic drug that is typically reserved as a last line
of defense against severe infection, is not even capable of conquering
this new strain of bacteria.

Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan and his
colleagues examined data from 300 U.S. hospitals to see how the new
bacteria was responding to imipenem. What they found was that between
1999 and 2006, there had been an astounding 300 percent increase in the
number of

Acinetobacter cases that were resistant to one of the industry’s most powerful antibiotic drugs.

Dr.
Laxminarayan worries that there will eventually be no effective
antibiotics available to treat these new super-bacteria, seeing as how
the number of cases continues to rise with no effective drug remedy in
the pipeline. The bacteria is capable of colonizing patients’ bodies
while displaying little to no visible symptoms, making it even more a
concern among hospital patients whose immune systems are already
compromised. Many soldiers returning from the war in Iraq are coming
down with

Acinetobacter as well.

Most people are aware
of MRSA, the hospital superbug that seems to continually be morphing
into ever more virulent strains, however few realize that others like

Acinetobacter which currently have fewer effective remedies available, are potentially even more deadly.

Many
researchers have concluded that the overuse of antibiotics is the
primary cause of super-strains of antibiotic resistant deadly bacteria.
Most conventional doctors commonly prescribe antibiotics when a patient
exhibits any kind of prolonged illness, even when the illness actually
turns out to be viral rather than bacterial.

Rather than build
up the body and fortify the immune system naturally, Western medicine
has devoted itself to handing out antibiotics like candy which is
destroying people’s immune symptoms. Avoiding even natural, highly
effective antibiotic elements like colloidal silver, the industry
continues to press on towards the next new drug to treat the next new
symptoms of illnesses caused by previous drugs.

Until
perspectives toward health advance from drugs and surgery to natural
and preventive, the disease mutation epidemic will continue to
intensify.

Sources for this story include: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/174821.php