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Can an already troubled health care system in India - much less its political system - handle NDM-1? By

50 percent of bacterial infections in Indian hospitals are resistant to

commonly used antibiotics, and polls show that many are widespread bacterial pathogens

India also resistant to powerful, broad spectrum

antibiotics. In 2010, a team of South Asian and British scientists have analyzed

bacterial infections in hospitals in New Delhi, and found that 24 percent of the

and can withstand the hospital of last resort intravenous antibiotics >> << called "karbapenemy" and 13 percent were endowed

super-resistant gene, known as "New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1" or

NDM-1, which provides resistance to karbapenemam and at least 14

Other antibiotics. "All the fear of hell," says medical microbiologist Chand Wattal, August Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. Since then, NDM-1 bacteria were found in water supplies >> << and puddles around New Delhi and in patients more than 35 countries, according to Cardiff University

Tim Walsh microbiologist . Many of these patients

is a "medical tourists" who came from Europe,

Middle East, North and South America to India and Pakistan for inexpensive

care. There are several new drugs to treat the development of microbes that

NDM-1 ulcers. In Western Hospital, "gram-positive" bacteria, which are structurally

vulnerable to antibiotics and disinfectants usually

dominate. Hospitals in India and other tropical country

"Gram-negative" bacteria that are enclosed in a tough outer membrane >> << that may strattera reflect antibiotics and antiseptics, are more common. Most

, drug research and development industry is concentrated in the western markets

"places like India, can only wait for new drugs

Gram-negative," and died from an incurable infection

inevitably rise, says that social fund health Ramanan << India >> Laxminarayan. Effective localization may be difficult to realize in the

India. The country has one of the highest burden of infectious diseases in the world >> << and use of antibiotics is not installed, and the rampant and excessive

to use that lead to resistant strains. In slums like Ekta Vihar, where barefoot children play in the narrow alleys >> << stated in open gutters, many can not afford a full course of antibiotics

when they get sick. The usual practice, says Dr. Sharma

Lala, who worked in the slums of Delhi for ten years to buy some pills >> << instead of the risk of developing drug-resistant bugs. Elsewhere, more rich consume antibiotics condition

not require them, such as colds and diarrhea, polls show. There is much potential for the type of medical microbiological monitoring >> << to track spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria >>. For << Laxminarayan, disease from surveillance

program effectively collects information only for two

from 640 districts. The policy of national pride further complicate the picture.

The new super-resistant gene was first discovered in Europe in patients

Whoever has gone to India and Pakistan to provide medical care. But when the British >> << scientists named it in honor of the city, which seemed to be happening,

, and warned the medical journal

The Lancet, that medical tourists may be at risk, Indian politicians, media, and doctors were indignant. National Center for India for Disease Control conducted a "days of open objects" public health significance of NDM-1

Times of India reported. The Indian Express wrote that the NDM-1 was "conspiracy to harm the Indian medical tourism." Bum medical industry

India Tourism brings hundreds of thousands of foreign >> << patients each year, seeking a break from high costs

and long wait times for surgery at home. New Delhi, cardio-surgeon Naresh Trehan, who treats medical tourists

do not appreciate the city belonging to the new Superbug.

, Error Resilience is a global problem, Trehan said. After >> << all "when AIDS was discovered, you do not call it New-1," he says. In disputes of an NDM-twisted, the Indian government quickly

convened an advisory committee on antibiotic resistance,

, and sailed an ambitious proposal to ban the sale of antibiotics without medical prescription

. He was removed after protests by

pharmacists and others who said it would be difficulty accessing

saving antibiotics among the rural poor. But politics was

likely be implemented in any case, as a policy of health decided

at the state level in India, rather than at the federal level. It is possible that NDM-1 is to get more popular and "get a lot more scary," as

Times of India put it

before political will to do something about this issue >> << merge. How many lives will be ruined by an infection at the same time

remains to be seen. "Errors did not expect us to catch up on our observation;

they are fun to go forward," says Laxminarayan. "This does not mean that the end of >> << antibiotics or another is," he says. "It is here in the

many cases."

This story was reported by Grant traveling partner Atlantic. .