Superbug find Sparks Fears of Hospital Crisis

Hospitals in Scotland are facing a new “superbug” crisis after it emerged yesterday that a form of the Acinetobacter bacterium, never before found north of the Border, was discovered in 11 patients in Tayside. Experts fear the bacterium, which can be treated by just one type of antibiotic, will soon spread across Scotland and mutate into an untreatable form.