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August 02, 2005
Resistance
Forbes.com is running an article about drug-resistant bacteria hitting US troops in Iraq. It's a terrible thing, and apparently epidemic.
The article also mentions a civilian contractor who got infected, so it's not just the troops. And:
Lt. Cmdr. Petersen says that NNMC's annual bill for the kind of antibiotics Locker [an infected patient] received has increased tenfold to $200,000.
I wonder how many Iraqi civilians have been infected. Considering the per capita income there, it sounds like the treatment for this one infection might cost on the order of a person's total income for life. I take back my complaints about health care reimbursement.
Posted by Mark at August 2, 2005 07:13 PM