11 Aug 2010
According to a study by Cardiff University, doctors have been seeing a specific strain of bacteria in an increasing number of patients, and treating it is becoming a major problem.
It is usually contracted from the initial spread that is passing through some countries in the East, due to British patients going abroad for faster, affordable medical or surgical procedures, including cosmetic surgery.
There are only two drugs that have been shown to work against it, but one is a 50-year-old drug that has been known to cause kidney damage, and both are at risk of quickly falling under the resisted category if the bacteria keeps spreading.