« Coston on Nipah virus | Main | Paraguay: 1,350 confirmed dengue cases »

January 27, 2013

Hong Kong: Infant ill with NDM-1 infection

Via the Hong Kong government website: Infant ill with NDM-1 infection.
The Centre for Health Protection today confirmed a case of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, an antibiotic-resistant type of bacteria, in a four-month-old boy.   
The boy was hospitalised for pneumonia in Pakistan, and was admitted to Princess Margaret Hospital on January 11. He was later transferred to Tuen Mun Hospital, and is now stable.   
This is the 20th detected case of the disease in Hong Kong.

January 27, 2013 at 07:35 AM |

| | | |

Comments

About

Bloggers

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Archives

More...

Add me to your TypePad People list

Read The Tyee

May 2013

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
      1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31  

Traffic

Subscribe to this blog's feed

H7N9 Resources

My Blogs

Some of My Books

  • : The Fall of the Republic

    The Fall of the Republic
    In a parallel timeline, 1990s America discovers the chronoplanes: parallel worlds at different points in history.

  • : Rogue Emperor

    Rogue Emperor
    The hijacking of the Roman Empire, 100 AD, by 21st-century Christian fundamentalists, in the second of the Chronoplane Wars novels.

  • : The Empire of Time

    The Empire of Time
    My first novel, published in 1978, but the last in the Chronoplane Wars trilogy.

  • : Gryphon

    Gryphon
    "Write a space opera," my editor said. So I did, with some nanotech thrown in.

  • : Tsunami

    Tsunami
    A companion novel to Icequake, set mostly in California.

  • : Icequake

    Icequake
    A disaster thriller (Antarctic ice sheet surges into ocean), dated but still fun.

  • : Eyas

    Eyas
    Originally published in 1982, and still the novel I'm most proud of.