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Well, this is news that may put a major damper on thoughts of enjoying international travel again.
Apparently, those vaccinated will find that superbugs resistant to drugs are "hitching rides" internally.
The Japan Times reported:
WASHINGTON – Newly vaccinated travelers enjoying a return to trips abroad may find a drug-resistant superbug hitching a ride in their gut, a study in Genome Medicine says.
U.S. and Dutch researchers studying the effects of travel on the bacteria in our stomachs were unnerved to find that a third of their subjects who traveled to Southeast Asia carried a bacterial gene resistant to “last resort” antibiotics for infections such as pneumonia and meningitis.
“These findings provide strong support that international travel risks spreading antimicrobial resistance globally,” said Alaric D’Souza, a researcher studying microbial genomics and ecology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis who co-authored the study published this week.
The team, which studied the feces of 190 Dutch travelers before and after travel to parts of Africa and Asia, found international travelers to be “reservoirs and spreaders” of drug-resistant superbugs.
When the travelers returned home, their fecal test kits revealed a “significant amount” of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) genes that do not respond to commonly used antibiotics.
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