Given the course the FFP has taken in the past few months, I have no idea how this story slipped past my beat reporters.  In New Jersey, there is an anti-biotic resistant strain of bacteria, Klebsiella pneumoniae,
which has claimed the life of a small boy.  He marks the 7th victim since last summer.

I wanted to add this to my Disease Countdown, but this technically is a case of rampant antibiotics causing dangerous mutations.  This strain is so bad, that the hospital had to clear rooms, move walls, change piping, just to stop it from spreading!  One person got it, they treated it with a super antibiotic, and during treatment the bacteria mutated to be resistant to that as well.  This is seriously scary stuff.

Cover-ups are scary too.  It seems that because the hospital is Federal, it doesn’t have to report its findings, and they aren’t required by law to contact the CDC!  Turns out this Uber-Bacteria (copyright pending) has been around since last year, and has been claiming lives since then.

Again this is one of those infections that you don’t have to be afraid of unless you have a compromised immune system.  Good thing all the crappy, genetically modifiedfood we are eating is working on that problem.