The incidence of diseases with important public health impac

The incidence of diseases with important public health impact, like HIV-AIDS, syphilis, and gonorrhea are required to be reported to public health officials. This information is not released directly to the public, but is used by the public health community for tracking purposes, so that control efforts can be coordinated. Do you think that KPC and/or NDM-1 should have mandatory reporting status too? Provide your opinion and explain why.

Solution

Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) and New Delhi metallo--lactamase-1 (NDM-1) became the widespread resistant bacterial strains. They occurs in several regions of the world including the United States. It is important or mandatory to report the prevalence status of these bacteria because the resistant strain can be transferred to the other microbes, which results in the generation of other resistant strains. Preventive measures can be taken if the data regarding the spread of resistant microbial strains is known. This will become a great threat to the world of antibiotics and necessitate the discovery of new antibiotics. Thus, the data of prevalence of resistant strains is mandatory to control its spread.