Dr. Carlos A. Centeno blog post by Universal PR. Team.
Quoted from http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Medical+tourists+beware/3465543/story.html:
Medical tourism is one of those benign phrases that conjures up happy thoughts of a little liposuction while lolling about on a beach in some exotic port.
Nobody expects New Delhi-metallo-beta-lactamase, the newest so-called superbug as a souvenir. Referred to as NDM-1, the antibiotic-resistant bacteria contains a gene that resists treatment by medicine’s most powerful drugs. It has already killed one Belgian man while two Canadians – one in Alberta, the other in British Columbia who returned home from their medical adventure unwittingly carrying NDM-1 – were successfully treated. more…