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SCMP Reporter

Infections with a drug-resistant superbug from India have been found on the mainland for the first time.
Three people were found to be infected with a bacteria carrying the NDM-1 enzyme, which makes it resistant to nearly every antibiotic.  
Two of of those infected, both babies, recovered, but the other died of lung cancer. 
It is the first time anywhere in the world that the enzyme has been found in Enterococcus faecom, a bacteria commonly found in human and animal intestines. 
NDM-1-bearing bacteria were found in the faeces of two babies, both born underweight in a hospital in Ningxia . The babies showed symptoms of diarrhoea and respiratory infection two or three days after their births on March 8 and 11.
 The China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told Xinhua that both had recovered and were now in good condition.
The CDC said Enterococcus faecom did not usually cause disease. Detecting NDM-1 bacteria in the babies did not necessarily suggest they were made ill  by the bacteria. The other  person infected with the NDM-1 bacteria was an 83-year-old man in Fujian  who was terminally ill with lung cancer.
 The patient was treated on May 12 for complications from the cancer. He left  the hospital on June 1 and died 11 days later, the Legal Evening Post   reported, quoting CDC official Dr Ni Daxin .  
'The major cause of this patient's death was the terminal phase of lung cancer. The role of the NDM-1 bacteria infection in the patient's disease development is not clear yet,' Ni said.
The bacteria was identified by the CDC and Academy of Military Medical Sciences from among 3,500 samples. Ni told Xinhua the detection rate was still low. 
Jing Huaiqi, a research fellow at the CDC, told Xinhua the current study suggested such bacterial infection usually occurred in patients in hospitals and would not spread to the community, so the public should not panic. 
The attention of scientists and doctors was called to the existence and spread of the new superbug from India, which rose to global prominence in August.



Ningxia records first mainland cases of drug-resistant superbug from India