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Triple Threat: New Pneumonia Is Drug-Resistant, Deadly And Contagious
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Doctors in Hangzhou have detected a a type of pneumonia that is both highly drug resistant and very deadly. It also spreads easily between people.The bacterium — a type of Klebsiella pneumoniae — killed five people in an ICU in Hangzhou in 2016, researchers reported Tuesday in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.(...) "Failure to control its early spread right now, will make a global epidemic of carbapenem-resistant [CRE], hypervirulent K. pneumoniae hard to avoid," the researchers write.
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