This is NOT a BUG.
It is a gene segment, spread hand to mouth, that can make many if not most bacteria, drug resistant.
This is WAY more significant than most people know.
Think of a crime scene....DNA.....it isn't alive....you can't kill IT. This is a mutation that is spread hand to mouth.....as a piece of genetic material that finds its way into bacteria...and if it is lucky and you are not....well, you are not.
Even if you can kill the germ it modifies...the plasmid is still ciruclating to infect a new kind of bacteria....it spreads from bacteria to bacteria.
Actually, you don't even need to catch a disease from some one who has an NDM-1 infection, altho that is one way to get it.....
you can just catch the gene, and if it gets into a bacterium in your body and it is a vital bacteria....it could conceiveably mutate inside you...conceivably....it did, in some poor souls in India and Pakistan.
Right now, all the cases have ties to Asia....not for long, since they have been depositing their DNA all over the place.....toilets, door handles, escaltors, airplanes, airports, dare we say, burgers? The piece of NDM 1 you get at the airport, may get washed away in water, then again, it could stick to the seat of your pants, and get into your next wipe....sorry to be so crude. Your benign deposit could be the next supergerm. Not to mention TB....
Then there is Pakistan....recent floods....ugh....can not even think about it. Millions living in swill...and aid workers coming in and going home.....
This is not ONE GERM, or TWO GERMS....This is a plasmid or gene that is contagious.