Europe in Grip of Super Bug - Not India !!

Europe is now in the grip of an old superbug that seems to have become more potent. The deadly drug-resistant superbug Clostridium difficile (C-diff) is causing an increasing number of infections across Europe.

In an Europe-wide study, scientists have found infections due to C-diff being widespread. Incidence in hospitals has risen to 4.1 per 10,000 patient days in 2008 from 2.45 per 10,000 patient days in 2005.

What's worse, when the team of scientists followed the patients up with infection after three months, they found that 22% had died, and C-diff infection had played a part in 40% of those deaths.

The study has been published in the British medical journal, The Lancet, on Tuesday.

C-diff is a spore-forming bacterium, which was discovered in 1978 and found to be the cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and colitis.

The recent study revealed that C-diff infection rates were high in Finland, Poland and Britain, which had rates of 19.1, 12.5 and 10.4 per 10,000 patient days, respectively. It is lower in France and Hungary, which had incidences of 2.1 and 2.0 per 10,000 patient days, respectively.

When the normal bacteria that live in the colon are disturbed -- usually due to antibiotic treatment -- and a patient ingests C-diff spores, the bacteria can multiply and release the toxins.

Some experts claim it now rivals the superbug MRSA as one of the leading threats to humans. Since its discovery, C-diff has grown increasingly resistant to antibiotics.


Ed Kuijper of Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands, who led the study with his colleague Martijn Bauer, said, "It is clearly on the rise. There is also a huge variation of incidence in different European countries. Overuse and misuse of antibiotics in recent decades have fueled a rise in drug-resistant superbugs like C-diff."

Earlier this year, scientists warned that a new so-called superbug from India -- New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1) -- could spread around the world.

"Antibiotic resistance remains a serious threat to patient safety, reducing options for treatment and increasing lengths of hospital stay, as well as patient morbidity and mortality," said Marc Sprenger, director of European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

The study was collaboration among 106 laboratories in 34 European countries. Each hospital tested stool samples of patients with suspected C-diff infection that developed three or more days after being admitted to hospital.

A case was defined when, subsequently, toxins were identified in stool samples. Detailed clinical data and stool isolates were collected for the first 10 cases in each hospital. After three months, the clinical data was followed up.

"Decreasing antibiotic use in hospitals has shown decreasing incidence of infections," said Dr Dominique Monnet of ECDC.

Symptoms of C-diff include profuse diarrhoea and abdominal pain and distention of the abdomen. An infection is also frequently accompanied by fever, nausea and dehydration. In some rare cases, blood may be present in the stool. The infection is spread by spores that contaminate the hospital environment and hands of health care workers who can transmit the spores to patients.

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An Introduction to Medical Tourism in India by Heal Wheel India

Medical Tourism in India is one of the fastest growing industries. India is on the hot chocolate for Treatment Abroad compared to other competitor nations like Singapore and Thailand which also are Medical Tourism Destination. Even the Indian government is paying special attention to promote India medical tourism . The Indian government in association with other leading Health care Organization is actively promoting Medical Tourism in India.


India has an added advantage in this field as the Indian Doctors are well known for their expertise in various surgeries across the globe. It is said that for all different kind of procedures performed the industry have large number of the Best Doctors in India in almost any field.




So a lot of intermediaries are coming up to cater this market as Medical Tourism India is stated to big the next big boom for India. One of such Intermediaries or facilitators for India Medical Tourism is Heal &Wheel. Heal & Wheel triggers the bonding between the international reputed hospitals and patients.

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Medical Tourism In India - Heal Wheel India

Medical Tourism India was recently the talk of the world sometimes back. Especially in the United Kingdom where it is famous as Treatment Abroad as they were claming that Top Notch hospitals of India primarily from Delhi is exporting a virus named NDM. Some of the hospitals in India is claming that it’s a myth created by developed nations specially UK to stop the booming Medical Tourism Industry in India. Lot of patients are coming to India for Cheap Healthcare Treatment whose quality are of International Standards. The process of visiting other countries is not new but there has been a recent uplift in the trend due to awareness.

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