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appear nothing thive states. also this week a new super bug from india has been seen in california, illinois and massachusetts. dr. manny alvarez is here. this sends a shiver down the spine there is a bacteria that doesn t respond to antibotic. we do have several bug that is we have limited resour to kill them. new bugs coming down from india. they are typical bacteria that you see with urinary tract infections and appears that americans went to india and got procedures and came back home with the bug. but the funny thing about this bacteria, there is no antibotic available to kill it. what do you do? right now cvc isolates the cases and even treating them with antibotics we had in the
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the bacteria now evolved an mutated and can fight against the most active antibiotics which is very concerning. julie: three things you can do, number one, to prevent yourself from running into this super bug, is to prevent the spread. that is what they ll tell you. that is right and it depend on everybody include doctors and hospitals, to prevent the spread people within the hospital found with the infection we need gowns and gloves and sanitizing hand washing and sanitizing in patient areas where they were with the bug. julie: that seems like common practice and hospitals are covered with doctors and gowns and they always sanitize, of course and apparently is not enough. it s not enough and we need stricter controls and guidelines around wherever these patients are. julie: okay. also, besides that, we need to understand as a population that we need to treasure antibiotics and use them only when we need them and a lot of
the flu. a new report out of harvard detailing the popularity contest that you might not want to win. it says during last fall s flu pandemic, popular students got sick an average of two weeks earlier than their less socially connected peers. researchers say that these dominant social circles could be used to predict outbreaks. possibly allowing officials to mobilize vaccines earlier so when the super bug hits it will come for the beautiful and popular first which means the in other words have the last laugh after all especially since they re the ones that probably created the virus. still ahead, an update on the scam involving soldiers families who are reporting it for weeks, justice delayed but not denied. it doesn t mean the families of the fallen that have been ripped off by prude and others are getting their money back. it does mean that future families may not get ripped off as bad. details after this.