One person in the UK has died and dozens more have been left sick by a “superbug” outbreak linked to contaminated eye drops. Health bosses say the crisis has been traced to three different eye drops made in India for people with dry eyes.
The drops are believed to have been carrying an antibiotic-resistant bug that can prove fatal for immunocompromised patients.
As reported by the Mail Online, experts at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) believe the outbreak is now over with the situation at its worst in the autumn last year when the products were originally recalled.
No details on the patient who died were released.
But a contributing factor to their death was listed as burkholderia cenocepacia, which is a type of bacteria naturally resistant to the antibiotics normally used to treat such infections.
