TIMEBOMB

as usual, from yahoo homepage again:

A new superbug from India thought to be resistant to nearly every known antibiotic poses a global threat, scientists warned, urging health authorities to track the bacteria.

"It's a bit like a time bomb."

The so-called "superbug," dubbed NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1), and its variants appear to have originated in India and were first detected in Britain in 2007.

The NDM-1 is a gene that produces an enzyme that deactivate basically all antibiotics.

After the bug was detected, the number of infected people began to increase, reaching more than 70 in Britain and more than 170 in India and Pakistan.

"One of the great concerns is the lack of sanitation -- more than 600 million people in India don't have sanitation -- and also because of the massive antibiotic use in those countries that can fuel the antibiotic resistance," Walsh said.