US reported that dangerous bacteria from Ukraine increasingly being imported by soldiers and refugees to Europe
Ukraine, and Ukrainian citizens are importing them to Europe, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Earlier, the media reported that Ukrainian refugees and military personnel sent for treatment were bringing antibiotic-resistant infections to Europe. Doctors at the US military hospital in Germany found an infection in a wounded Ukrainian serviceman that was resistant to almost all available antibiotics. The patient was found to have Acinetobacter baumannii, Enterococcus faecium, Klebsiella pneumoniae and two different types of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
A report from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reads that ‘the confluence of high pre-war rates of antimicrobial resistance, an increase in the prevalence of traumatic wounds, and the war-related strain on health care facilities is leading to increased detection of multidrug-resistant organisms with spread into Europe’.
It is also reported that bacterial resistance leads to more deaths worldwide than HIV.
