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Siouxsie Wiles: Increase in New Zealanders with drug-resistant super-bugs
More people in New Zealand per year are carrying drug resistant super-bugs.
This year alone, there have been 34 cases of people with CROs - a family of bacteria that has developed resistance to the strongest antibiotics available.
All of 2017 there were only 33 cases and a decade ago there was only six people on average carrying the bugs.
Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles told Mike Hosking it's caught overseas and brought back to the country.
She says there are still a couple of drugs left to treat the bugs.
"They are treatable but there are strains now emerging overseas that are also resistant to those as well, once they come in then that really is the apocalypse."
LISTEN ABOVE AS SIOXSIE WILES SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING
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By Newstalk ZBMore people in New Zealand per year are carrying drug resistant super-bugs.
This year alone, there have been 34 cases of people with CROs - a family of bacteria that has developed resistance to the strongest antibiotics available.
All of 2017 there were only 33 cases and a decade ago there was only six people on average carrying the bugs.
Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles told Mike Hosking it's caught overseas and brought back to the country.
She says there are still a couple of drugs left to treat the bugs.
"They are treatable but there are strains now emerging overseas that are also resistant to those as well, once they come in then that really is the apocalypse."
LISTEN ABOVE AS SIOXSIE WILES SPEAKS WITH MIKE HOSKING