Israel: a deadly virus

An antibiotic-resistant virus raged across Israeli hospitals and killed 120-200 people.

Currently this information is causing many Israelis to worry when about 500 people were infected with Klebsiella in the past six months and the proportion of patients dying is about 30-40%, according to the Ministry of Health. The public opinion of Israel is also very dissatisfied when there is information that the Ministry of Health has confiscated the information when it discovered the incident about half a month ago.

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common bacterium commonly found in the mouth, skin and intestinal wall. However, the type of bacteria that can resist antibiotics is a phenomenon only discovered a few years ago. According to the Israeli Ministry of Health, the status of this drug-resistant bacterium has not been detected since it does not have a central warning system like many Western countries.

Israeli Health Minister Yacov Ben Yizri suggested calm people (Photo: Ynetnews)

However, whether this bacterium is a direct cause of the death of patients is still questionable, since most infected patients are over 70 years old (the average age of bacteria infected is 75). and those who died all had other serious diseases like cancer, diabetes .

The Israeli Ministry of Health believes that ordinary people will not be affected by this epidemic but only those with very weak immune systems or who are suffering from different types of epidemics are at risk. Israeli Health Minister Ben Yizri has now asked doctors not to prescribe arbitrary antibiotics if not needed. He also called for public opinion to calm down and pledged that the ministry would soon find antibiotics for the virus.

So far, doctors have determined that the disease can be transmitted from open wounds in hospitals, excretion by the secretion or stool, and especially for patients with weak immune systems like the elderly. In addition, doctors suspect that this type of bacteria can be transmitted through both stethoscope and doctor's uniform.

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