An antibiotic- resistant bacteria is now feared to be medicine’s worst nightmare. The bacteria  is named NDM-1, New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1. NDM-1 possesses an enzyme that chemically breaks down carbapenem antiobiotics. Carbapen antibiotics are used as a last resort for treating advanced bacterial infections. There are more or less 150 anti- carbapen cases reported in UK, Chennai, Haryana, Pakistan and India alone so the growing worry that the bacteria may evolve into a much stronger bug is a scary reality. The NDM-1 enzyme allows the bacteria to grow a resistance to most antibiotic drugs. The only hope to save a life is dim when this bacteria hits you. Another cause for alarm is that the gene of NDM-1 is capable of fast replication when coupled with other strains of bacteria. This may create a type of superbug that is antibiotic resistant. And since it usually takes years of research for the pharmaceutical world to create drugs that can fight off pathogens like NDM-1, the threat of infection is a cloud above our heads.

Since the bacteria is already being acquired by the public and is now causing fatalities we must be more mindful and aware of how we use drugs. Avoid self prescription. When you self prescribe you might as well use cough syrup for toothache. Misuse of antibiotics would be helping bacteria to gain the upper hand over your health. So listen to your doctor and suffer the cold metal table, it’s for your own good.