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The number of infections caused by dangerous bacteria such as Ehec increases. Experts from the region anticipate further outbreaks and more deaths. The clinics are preparing themselves.
The Ehec crisis seems to have survived. The number of new cases is declining. But does not the all-clear. 'There will always epidemics with new germs, "says Joachim Vogt, chief physician in the Trier brothers, responsible for hospital hygiene. There are also people from dying, the analyst said.
What makes the doctors worry: Many bacteria no longer respond to antibiotics, they are resistant and therefore difficult to treat. The emergence of new resistant bacteria ask the health system with major challenges, said Harald Michel, director of the Health Department Trie rer.
Already by the crisis are the Ehec German hospitals have reached their limits, says Vogt. Be conducted at more than 800 by the gut bacterium infected patients whose kidneys had failed, nationwide almost simultaneously washes the blood (dialysis). Many hospitals were overloaded, why were doctors and dialysis stations from the brothers and the mother's house to be confirmed from other places.
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http://www.volksfreund.de/nachricht...en-rechnen-mit-neuen-Epidemien;art742,2833137
The Ehec crisis seems to have survived. The number of new cases is declining. But does not the all-clear. 'There will always epidemics with new germs, "says Joachim Vogt, chief physician in the Trier brothers, responsible for hospital hygiene. There are also people from dying, the analyst said.
What makes the doctors worry: Many bacteria no longer respond to antibiotics, they are resistant and therefore difficult to treat. The emergence of new resistant bacteria ask the health system with major challenges, said Harald Michel, director of the Health Department Trie rer.
Already by the crisis are the Ehec German hospitals have reached their limits, says Vogt. Be conducted at more than 800 by the gut bacterium infected patients whose kidneys had failed, nationwide almost simultaneously washes the blood (dialysis). Many hospitals were overloaded, why were doctors and dialysis stations from the brothers and the mother's house to be confirmed from other places.
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http://www.volksfreund.de/nachricht...en-rechnen-mit-neuen-Epidemien;art742,2833137