| Acinetobacter baumannii from Iraq The Coalition of the Contaminated Iraq (imported) US, UK, Australia, Italy, Fiji, Germany, Canada, Jordan Service personnel from 40 nations have received care at Landstuhl |
| States with Community Hospitals infected with Acinetobacter baumannii As reported by staff, patients and family members. Please call or email us with your reports of Acinetobacter baumannii infections Marcie Hascall Clark [email protected] 321 779 6799 Report Grant Hospital Columbus Ohio infections here Keep in mind that hospitals are not required to report Acinetobacter baumannii cases to anyone. Often the victims themselves and their families are not told they have it. Occasionally doctors will tell the patient they have one of the strains from Iraq. Rarely the staff will tell the family how to keep from spreading it or becoming infected themselves. Confirmed cases of Acinetobacter baumannii are difficult to come by. These locations and cases are confirmed. Cases of Completely Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii were reported by hospital workers as early as 2005. Rehab Centers, Nursing Homes and other long term care facilities are rapidly becoming infected. Often patients with Completely Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are sent to nursing homes to die because there is nothing left to do for them. New Rule Enacted by Bush Administration Impedes Cases Against Nursing Homes February 2009 My primitive map has outlived it's usefulness. Acinetobacter baumannii has successfully spread throughout our country and outbreaks are occurring all around the world I'm going to keep it here as a reminder of how hard we have tried over the last four years to keep this from happening. We are now facing a health care system in this country that is infecting patients with not just one but two or more drug resistant organisms together and they are killing patients needlessly. You can become infected just by having tests run. Outpatient surgery is also dangerous though getting out of a facility as fast as possible is still advisable. MRSA treatment has cleared the path for the gram negative organisms like Acinetobacter baumannii, Psuedomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pnuemonia C diff is proliferating in our filthy hospitals, taking advantage of patients on antibiotics and wears the body down extremely fast. Funerals for AB victims are now closed casket due to the risk of infection And the hospitals have gotten away with it. !!!!!! Stop letting them keep their dirty secrets !!!!! Lawyers are afraid of them. The media doesn't want to lose the advertising money which the healthcare industry seems to have so much of. Holmes Regional in Melbourne Florida MRSA, C diff, and more, even the staff is getting sick from something and don't sign an organ donor form while your there. Any city with a VA Medical Center likely has infected medical facilities. Brownsville Ab patient dies June 30th beware, you are on fire with Extremely Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Brownsville TX has 19 reported cases. This is a huge number of cases to be reported. McAllen, Harlingen, Weslaco, San Benito be on the lookout. |
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| Iraqibacter A relatively benign bug becomes a highly lethal pathogen, known to U.S. soldiers as Iraqibacter. Watch the Nova Science segment here but please note the continued fallicy that soldiers are picking up Acinetobacter baumannii on the streets in Iraq. They are being given the Acinetobacter in the military evacuation and health systems. Two hospital patients with bacterial infections die CHICAGO -- Two intensive-care patients at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago have died after becoming infected with a common bacteria, the hospital said today. 'Hospital bug killed 18 Doce de Octubre patients' According to allegations made in a report in today's El País that have since been publicly refuted in a statement released by hospital bosses, the deaths of 18 out of 252 patients at the 12 de Octubre Hospital in Madrid infected by the Acinetobacter Baumannii bacteria since February 2006 were as a direct result. In total, the report claims, 101 of the 252 affected patients have since died, and, in the majority cases, the infection was found to have been a contributory factor. The outbreak of the multi-drug resistant bacteria has taken twenty months to contain and has forced the demolition of the old intensive care unit, from where it had proven impossible to eradicate, and which has been completely re-built. Deadly Bacteria kills 18 at Major Madrid Hospital Drug-resistant bacteria kills 18 in Spanish hospital Southern Australia Man Struck down by Superbug Alan Fehlberg, 65, picked up the bacterial infection, which is extremely rare in South Australia, while on holiday in Egypt. He is fighting for his life in Flinders Medical Centre after spending the past three months in intensive care units in Cairo, Paris and Singapore. Superbug Scare hits Coventry's University Hospital A ward had to be closed because of the bug, thought to be carried by soldiers returning from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Staff at the hospital in Walsgrave identified three patients with the bacterium acinetobacter baumannii known as MRAB. Brownsville Texas Outbreak Almost 20 People Tested Positive for Rare Infection Monday , April 28, 2024 Deadly drug resistant bacteria may have come from Iraq BROWNSVILLE - A total of 19 people have tested positive for a rare infection sometimes linked to soldiers coming home from Iraq at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville. Soldiers blamed for deadly superbug by Michele Paduano BBC Eight patients died from a superbug after a new strain was introduced to a hospital where soldiers injured in Iraq are treated, a freedom of information request by the BBC has revealed. The bug is resistant to virtually all known antibiotics Watch Video here Three Pikesville patients share same "rare" infection Three current patients at Pikeville Medical Center have been identified with the same strain of Acinetobacter infection, the hospital reported, which is rare Dutch military battling new enemy RNW Press Review - 25 January 2025 - by David Doherty The Dutch army found itself battling a new enemy yesterday in the east of the Netherlands. "Soldiers in action against resistant bacteria" is the headline in AD, which features a front-page photo of servicemen and women in full camouflage gear setting up an emergency intensive care facility in a hospital car park in the province of Twente. Two intensive care patients at the hospital were found to be infected with the rare Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria, which - like the more common hospital bug MSRA - is resistant to most antibiotics. The two are now in isolation and a sign reading "do not enter unless absolutely necessary" has been slapped on the rest of the ward. The 14 patients currently on the ward will stay put. "We can only start disinfecting when the last patient has been discharged ... which could take up to three months depending on their condition," explained a hospital spokesman. New intensive care patients will go to the military containers in the car park. AD reports that "there is a similar intensive care unit at the Dutch military camp in Afghanistan". "So we've got the experience to get everything set up quickly," adds one of the soldiers with a wink. St Anges Reports Cases of Deadly Bacteria St. Agnes Hospital reports they do have confirmed cases of the deadly bacteria acinetobacter baumannii, believed to have been the cause of death for three people at the University of Maryland Medical Center nearly one week ago. In a statement released by the hospital, spokesperson John Welby said, "St. Agnes Hospital has identified a handful of cases of Acinetobacter baumannii and has put in place an aggressive infection control plan to contain it." Welby would not confirm where the bacteria was found at St. Agnes and how many people were infected. Stay with ABC2 News and abc2news.com for updates. Bacterial infection hits four at hospital Patients isolated; risk of spread called minimal By Dennis O'Brien | sun reporter January 17, 2025 Four patients in an intensive-care unit at University of Maryland Medical Center have been isolated after lab tests showed that they have a relatively uncommon bacterial infection that is resistant to antibiotics. Doctors identified the bacterium as Acinetobacter baumannii, known to attack wounded military personnel and hospital patients with weakened immune systems. The isolated patients at the hospital have a treatment team assigned to them, members of which wear gowns and gloves, and the hospital has minimized risks that the infection might spread to its nine other intensive-care units, said Dr. Harold Standiford, medical director of infection control. Standiford said the hospital acted after routine lab tests showed that one intensive-care patient was infected late last month. Dr. David Blythe, a state epidemiologist, reviewed the hospital's plans after they were implemented Jan. 4. "We want to keep this very well walled off so our other patients are safe," Standiford said. Unlike MRSA, another antibiotic-resistant bacterium that can migrate from hospital wards to the general population, A. baumannii does "not hit healthy individuals," he said. But the bacterium is capable of causing the deaths of people who are very sick or frail. Three patients who had been in the same UM Medical Center intensive-care unit for several weeks have died in the two weeks since the bacterium was discovered, but Standiford said doctors might never know whether A. baumannii contributed to the deaths. About 102 military personnel wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq were infected with the bacterium at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and at Water Reed Army Medical Center between Jan. 1, 2002, and Aug. 31, 2004, according to a report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases also have been reported over the years in hospital intensive- care units in the United States and Europe. "The high level of antimicrobial resistance is a challenge to clinicians treating A. baumannii infections," the report said. 32 WLKY Target Investigaton SUPERGERMS Watch the Video here August 1, 2024 LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For years, doctors have warned about the overuse of antibiotics for fear that bacteria could become more resistant. Now, there is more evidence they were right. Stronger bacteria are invading hospitals across the country and Louisville. Target 32’s Paul Moses discovered anyone can be a carrier and not find out until it’s too late. “She never really understood what was going on. One of the nurses had to write down ancinetobactor baumannii on paper, give it to her and say ‘look it up,’” Marcie Hascall Clark said. “This is what your husband has.” That’s how Clark, an educator on infectious bacteria, described the situation of a Sellersburg woman whose husband contracted two severe infections during heart surgery at a Louisville hospital: MRSA, a staph infection, sometimes called a flesh-eating bacteria, and Acinetobactor Baumannii, which first surfaced in Vietnam and has been spreading. “Do consumers, people who are going to the hospital, have a way of knowing if they're going to a clean hospital or a dirty hospital?” Infection Control Advisor Dr. Bill Templeton said. “They really don't.” Templeton advises several local healthcare facilities on infection control and he said hospitals aren’t required to share infection statistics with the public. The Health Department doesn’t track it either. In fact, reporting is voluntary - even though bacteria like Acinetobactor Baumannii can be transmitted from countertops, curtains and other mundane surfaces on which it can live. Clark knows about Acinetobactor Baumannii personally. Before she ran a Web site educating people about the dangers of hospital- contracted infections, her husband, a bomb disposal contractor in Iraq, almost died from blast and a Baumannii infection. “It’s completely changed our lives,” Clark said. “He has permanent damage from the drugs for acinetobactor baumannii, in addition to disabilities from the blast.” Clark said even domestic strains of Acinetobactor are nearly resistant to all antibiotics. Clark said hospitals need to do more to educate patients on the risks. “That's what made me mad,” Clark said. “My husband come through it alive, which a lot of people aren't now, but, the fact that I wasn't told anything." Infection control experts said communication and education are the keys to prevention and seemingly simple things could make a big difference. “Hand hygiene, keep your hands clean, soap and water or primarily using an alcohol based hand rub,” Dr. Ruth Carrico said. “The second is ensuring that the environment in a healthcare facility is clean, not sterile, but clean. And the third, and maybe the most important of them all, is that we have an adequate control over the use of antibiotics, both inside a healthcare facility, but just as important to the consumer, is making sure we're not overusing, misusing antibiotics." Soon, doctors said hospitals might need to isolate everyone who wants to check in until screenings are done for bacteria, but such a system wouldn’t be cheap. “Within the next year I think most hospitals in this country will have to start doing some kind of culturing with patients when they're admitted,” Templeton said. In Scandinavia, hospitals have been screening for bacteria on patients for more than 20 years. Now, they have the lowest post- operative infection rate in the world. “Hospitals can fix this,” Clark said. “It's money. It comes down to money. It comes down to paying for what you need to do." By Paul Moses Anchor and Investigative Reporter WLKY Tennessee Regional Information Center 10/27/2006 Tough Rare Bacteria Spreads in Area A rare drug-resistant bacteria is becoming more common in area hospitals, due in part to military personnel bringing it home from Iraq, local health experts believe. The bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii, is not a threat to healthy people. However, officials say it can be dangerous for people who are already ill and have weak immune systems, because it causes wound infections that can lead to death. There are antibiotics that can combat the bacteria, but in rare instances nothing will work, health experts say. Dr. Anthony Harris, an infectious disease specialists at the University of Maryland Medical Center, said the infection primarily affects two groups of people: the very ill and wounded soldiers who have served in Iraq. Some returning troops bringing rare bacteria back to Tennessee By CLAUDIA PINTO Staff Writer - THE TENNESSEEAN A rare drug-resistant bacteria is becoming more common in Tennessee hospitals, due in part to military personnel bringing it home from Iraq, local health experts believe. The bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii, is not a threat to healthy people. However, officials say it can be dangerous for people who are already ill and have weak immune systems, because it causes wound infections, pneumonia and bloodstream infections that can lead to death. Health experts don't know how much returning soldiers contribute to the bacteria's spread. But they all agree the bacteria is spreading. "It's been on the increase everywhere," said Dr. Juli Horton, an infectious disease physician at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. "It's probably going to be something that we'll hear more and more about." Dr. Tom Talbot, chief hospital epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, says just a few years ago the bacteria was detected among patients there once or twice a year. Today the hospital is seeing it once a month or more. "It used to be barely on the radar, and now it's definitely on the radar," Talbot said. "It will be the next antibiotic-resistant bacteria of interest." Horton said the situation is similar at Centennial: "We are seeing it with increasing frequency." There are antibiotics that can combat the bacteria, but in rare instances nothing will work, health experts say. Dr. Anthony Harris, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center, said the infection primarily affects two groups of people: the very ill and wounded soldiers who have served in Iraq. "It's seen a lot in veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan," said Harris, who is an expert on Acinetobacter and has several grants to study antibiotic-resistant bacteria. "We don't know at this point how much of a factor the veterans are." No one, including state and federal health agencies, is tracking the number of people who have become sickened with the bacteria. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an increasing number of cases at military medical facilities in 2004. More recent data is not available. "There's no question that Acinetobacter baumannii caused a challenge in military medical facilities," said Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC. Still, Srinivasan said, the increase began before the war in Iraq, and there are other factors that play much more of a role. Ever improving medical care allows very sick people to be kept alive longer, and this population is more susceptible to becoming infected. Also, several types of drug-resistant bacteria are on the rise because of the overuse of antibiotics. Other epidemiologists agree other factors are involved. "It's part of a larger picture," Horton said. "It's one of several bacteria we are concerned about. We have very few drugs to treat it." It's unclear whether Fort Campbell's Blanchfield Army Community Hospital has seen an increase in cases. A military spokeswoman said a doctor at the hospital cannot answer questions about the situation there because numbers aren't kept. The Fort Campbell hospital serves the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, which is returning from a second tour of duty in Iraq. Molly Reynolds, a spokeswoman for the Veterans Affairs hospital in Nashville, did not return three phone calls for comment. Acinetobacter baumannii lives in dirt and water around the world but is believed to be more common in the Middle East. One possible explanation for the many cases among American soldiers is thattheir wounds become infected when exposed to Iraqi dirt. Horton said that soldiers returning from Iraq sometimes carry the bacteria on their skin, but the average civilian is not likely a carrier. Healthy people can be carriers without becoming sick and spreading it to others. The bacteria can be passed along through a simple handshake. But people typically become infected when the bacteria enters an open wound. Studies have shown that it's possible for the bacteria to live on surfaces for as long as 20 days. It can be easily killed with commonly used disinfectant agents. "Health-care facilities have to be vigilant," Srinivasan said. Srinivasan said the reports of increased cases from local doctors may be representative of what's happening all over the country. "Anecdotally, we are getting calls from health-care facilities across the country that are reporting more cases," he said. "These reports are becoming more common." THE TENNESSEAN Katie Allison Granju , Producer |
| The Devil Roams the ITU Headlines Malta At St Luke's Hospital... "The Devil" roams the ITU Multiple resistant bacterium Acinetobacter could be deadly Owen Galea 24 February 2025 The Intensive Therapy Unit at St Luke’s Hospital has been “attacked” by a new bacterium, Acinetobacter, which is resistant to all antibiotics. A well known medical practitioner at St Luke’s nicknamed this bacterium as “The Devil”. He said: “During these last few weeks we did not have a problem with MRSA but we have been battling multiple resistant bacteria.” Read more..... |
| An incomplete list of US Civilian Hospitals with cases of Acinetobacter baumannii as reported by staff, patients, family members, and media reports Mountain Valley Rehab Prescott Arizona Health South Rehab Tucson Arizona St Joseph's Mercy Health Center Hot Springs Arkansas Jefferson Regional Medical Center Pine Bluff Arkansas Davis East Life Care Center Pine Bluff Arkansas Mercy Hospital Bakersfield California Olympia Medical Center Los Angeles California University of Southern California Los Angeles California Arrowhead Medical Center Colton California Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Grass Valley California Wound Care Clinic at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center San Jose California Holy Cross Hospital Ft Lauderdale Florida Lee Memorial Hospital Ft Myers Florida Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville Florida Holmes Regional Medical Center Melbourne Florida USA Orlando Regional Medical Center Orlando Florida Kendall Regional Medical Center Miami Florida St. Joseph's Hospital Tampa Florida Medical Center of Central Georgia Macon Georgia Roseland Community Hospital Chicago lllinois St Joseph's Hospital South Bend Indiana Our Lady of Bellfonte Hospital Flatwoods Kentucky Jewish Hospital Louisville Kentucky Pikeville Medical Center Pikeville Kentucky University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital Lexington Kentucky Ochsner Healthcare Hospital New Orleans Lousiana Tulane University Hospital New Orleans Louisiana Wound Care Center Sulphur Louisiana Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center Dearborn Michigan Kernan Rehab Center Baltimore Maryland National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland St Agnes Hospital Baltimore Maryland University of Maryland Medical Center Baltimore Maryland Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boson Massachusetts Wake Forest Baptist Hospital Winston Salem NC St John's Hospital Springfield Missouri St John's Hospital St Louis Missouri Manor Care Health Service Reno Nevada Kennedy Memorial Hospitals University Medical Center Cherry Hill NJ Roberts Woods Johnson University Hospital Fuld Campus Hamilton Campus Hamilton NJ Underwood Memorial Hospital Woodbury New Jersey Virtua West Jersey Hospital Vorhee's Vorhees New Jersey Kessler Rehab West Orange NJ Specialty Hospital Amherst Ohio Specialty Select Hospital Akron Ohio MetroHealth Medical Center Cleveland Ohio Grant Medical Center Columbus Ohio Regency Manor Rehab and Subacute Center Columbus Ohio Community Health Partners Lorraine Ohio HCR Manor Care Parma Ohio Flower Hospital Toledo Ohio St Vincents Toledo Ohio Toledo Hospital Toledo Ohio Undisclosed facility Toledo Ohio Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia PA University of Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia PA Trident Hospital North Charleston South Carolina Johnson City Medical Center Johnson City Tennessee The Regional Medical Center Memphis, Tennessee Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville Tennessee Centennial Medical Center Nashville Tennessee St Elizabeth Hospital Beaumont Texas Valley Baptist Medical Center Brownsville Texas Valley Regional Medical Center Brownsville Texas Solara Hospital Brownsville Texas Harris Methodist Hospital Ft Worth Texas St Michaels Hospital Texarkana Texas Willowbrook Methodist Hospital Houston Texas Hampton Specialty Hospital Hampton Virginia James River Rehab Facility Newport News Virginia Sentara Careplex Hampton Virginia Medical Center of Virginia Richmond Virginia Swedish Medical Center Seattle Washington University Royal Brisbane& Womans Hospital Brisbane Australia Princess Alexandra Hospital Brisbane Australia Alfred Hospital Melbourne Australia Flinders Medical Center Southern Australia |
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March 2, 2025
Two patients die at Roseland
Community Hospital in Chicago
with Acinetobacter baumannii
February 2, 2025
Patient dies from Acinetobacter
baumannii and Cdiff coinfection
at Trident Hospital in North
Charleston SC
Hospital claims he died from a
lung condition that he didn't
have when he went in
January 2009
Civillian Contractor takes Ab
from Landstuhl to Memphis in
2005 here
November 2008
Grant Medical Center
Columbus Ohio denies outbreak
Please report cases
Wound care center in San Jose
California gives woman
completely drug resistant Ab
October 20, 2024
Texarkana patient in renal failure
due to toxic drugs used to treat
Ab. So this is no big deal?????
September 29, 2024
Staff at hospital in Texarkana
tells family Ab is no big deal,
patient would probably die of old
age before they would die of Ab.
July 22, 2024
Dog in Delaware tests positive
for Acinetobacter baumannii
July 12, 2024
Blood bank worker diagnosed
with Acinetobacter baumannii
June 30th 2008
Brownsville Acinetobacter
baumannii patient dies
June 25 2008
Dog in Florida tests postive for
Acinetobacter baumannii
May 23, 2024
MDRAb reported in patient after
successful heart surgery at
Medical Center of Central
Georgia.
April 9, 2025
Patients at Specialty Hospital in
Amherst Ohio in isolation for
Acinetobacter baumannii
April 3, 2025
Four year old in Huntsville
Alabama fighting Acinetobacter
baumannii
March 31st 2008
Outbreak reported at Pikeville
Medical Center, formerly
Pikeville Methodist hospital,
Pikeville Kentucky
March 24
Hospital worker job threatened
when she refuses to care for
patient with completely drug
resistant Ab without taking full
precautions
March 7
Toledo Hospital moving
Acinetobacter patients out
because their insurance ran out.
February 17
A 49 year old woman dies at
Ochsner Hospital in New Orleans
Lousianna from Completely Drug
Resistant Acinetobacter
baumannii.
Her Ab was tested for every
antibiotic and was resistant to
them all.
February 9,
Ab spreads to other facilities in
Baltimore Maryland
February 5,
Patient reported infected with
Acinetobacter baumannii in
Dearborn Michigan
January 25,
St. Agnes in Baltimore Md
reports cases
January 17,
Columbus Ohio Ab patient life
support pulled
January 16, 2025
University of Maryland Medical
Center reports 4 patients in
isolation for Acinetobacter
baumannii infections which
began in December. They claim
not to know whether or not Ab
attributed to three deaths in this
ICU during this time. That means
they had Ab so we're talking
about 7 known cases.
January 14, 2025
Patient who went into Grant
Medical Center in Columbus
Ohio for surgery fighting for her
life with Acinetobacter baumannii
sepsis
January 12, 2025
Otherwise healthy Toledo Ohio
hospital worker infected with
Acinetobacter baumannii and
MRSA fighting for her life.
Husbands says hospitals in this
area are having a bad problem
with Acinetobacter baumannii.
November 24, 2024
More reports from Lee Memorial
Hospital in Ft Myers Florida.
Infectious disease protocals not
being followed and 7th and 8th
floors are heavily infected.
November 14, 2024
Patient at Davis East Care Center
in Pine Bluff Arkansas dying from
MDR Ab (Deceased)
October 13, 2024
Patient Dies at the Regional
Medical Center in Memphis Tenn
from Acinetobacter baumannii
October 4, 2024
Civilian accident victim at
Arrowhead Medical Center dies
from Ab infection
October 1, 2024
Civilian accident victim infected
with MDRAB in ICU at Arrowhead
Medical Center in Colton,
California
September 25, 2024
Civilian accident victim contracts
MDRAB after surgery at St.
Josephs Hospital in Tampa
Florida.
September 16, 2024
Civilian with MDRAB confirmed
strain from Iraq at Willowbrook in
Houston, TX
September 3 2007
Injured Contractor from Iraq
arrives at civilian hospital with
MDRAB. (Dallas)
September 2 2007
Just in from the National
Institutes for Health
4 confirmed cases there
Others being treated with
tigecycline.
August 28, 2024
Nick Narron died this morning at
Jewish Hospital in Louisville
Kentucky after battling a
co-infection with MRSA and
MDRAB.
August 17 2007
Transplant patient dies at Tulane
from MDRAB while being treated
with colistin.
July 27, 2024
Burn patient with MDRAB at
Kendall Regional Medical Center
July 19, 2024 MDRAB first
reported in multiple patients at
Willowbrook Methodist in Ft
Worth Texas. Patient reporting
was put in room following
wounded soldier.
Two patients die at Roseland
Community Hospital in Chicago
with Acinetobacter baumannii
February 2, 2025
Patient dies from Acinetobacter
baumannii and Cdiff coinfection
at Trident Hospital in North
Charleston SC
Hospital claims he died from a
lung condition that he didn't
have when he went in
January 2009
Civillian Contractor takes Ab
from Landstuhl to Memphis in
2005 here
November 2008
Grant Medical Center
Columbus Ohio denies outbreak
Please report cases
Wound care center in San Jose
California gives woman
completely drug resistant Ab
October 20, 2024
Texarkana patient in renal failure
due to toxic drugs used to treat
Ab. So this is no big deal?????
September 29, 2024
Staff at hospital in Texarkana
tells family Ab is no big deal,
patient would probably die of old
age before they would die of Ab.
July 22, 2024
Dog in Delaware tests positive
for Acinetobacter baumannii
July 12, 2024
Blood bank worker diagnosed
with Acinetobacter baumannii
June 30th 2008
Brownsville Acinetobacter
baumannii patient dies
June 25 2008
Dog in Florida tests postive for
Acinetobacter baumannii
May 23, 2024
MDRAb reported in patient after
successful heart surgery at
Medical Center of Central
Georgia.
April 9, 2025
Patients at Specialty Hospital in
Amherst Ohio in isolation for
Acinetobacter baumannii
April 3, 2025
Four year old in Huntsville
Alabama fighting Acinetobacter
baumannii
March 31st 2008
Outbreak reported at Pikeville
Medical Center, formerly
Pikeville Methodist hospital,
Pikeville Kentucky
March 24
Hospital worker job threatened
when she refuses to care for
patient with completely drug
resistant Ab without taking full
precautions
March 7
Toledo Hospital moving
Acinetobacter patients out
because their insurance ran out.
February 17
A 49 year old woman dies at
Ochsner Hospital in New Orleans
Lousianna from Completely Drug
Resistant Acinetobacter
baumannii.
Her Ab was tested for every
antibiotic and was resistant to
them all.
February 9,
Ab spreads to other facilities in
Baltimore Maryland
February 5,
Patient reported infected with
Acinetobacter baumannii in
Dearborn Michigan
January 25,
St. Agnes in Baltimore Md
reports cases
January 17,
Columbus Ohio Ab patient life
support pulled
January 16, 2025
University of Maryland Medical
Center reports 4 patients in
isolation for Acinetobacter
baumannii infections which
began in December. They claim
not to know whether or not Ab
attributed to three deaths in this
ICU during this time. That means
they had Ab so we're talking
about 7 known cases.
January 14, 2025
Patient who went into Grant
Medical Center in Columbus
Ohio for surgery fighting for her
life with Acinetobacter baumannii
sepsis
January 12, 2025
Otherwise healthy Toledo Ohio
hospital worker infected with
Acinetobacter baumannii and
MRSA fighting for her life.
Husbands says hospitals in this
area are having a bad problem
with Acinetobacter baumannii.
November 24, 2024
More reports from Lee Memorial
Hospital in Ft Myers Florida.
Infectious disease protocals not
being followed and 7th and 8th
floors are heavily infected.
November 14, 2024
Patient at Davis East Care Center
in Pine Bluff Arkansas dying from
MDR Ab (Deceased)
October 13, 2024
Patient Dies at the Regional
Medical Center in Memphis Tenn
from Acinetobacter baumannii
October 4, 2024
Civilian accident victim at
Arrowhead Medical Center dies
from Ab infection
October 1, 2024
Civilian accident victim infected
with MDRAB in ICU at Arrowhead
Medical Center in Colton,
California
September 25, 2024
Civilian accident victim contracts
MDRAB after surgery at St.
Josephs Hospital in Tampa
Florida.
September 16, 2024
Civilian with MDRAB confirmed
strain from Iraq at Willowbrook in
Houston, TX
September 3 2007
Injured Contractor from Iraq
arrives at civilian hospital with
MDRAB. (Dallas)
September 2 2007
Just in from the National
Institutes for Health
4 confirmed cases there
Others being treated with
tigecycline.
August 28, 2024
Nick Narron died this morning at
Jewish Hospital in Louisville
Kentucky after battling a
co-infection with MRSA and
MDRAB.
August 17 2007
Transplant patient dies at Tulane
from MDRAB while being treated
with colistin.
July 27, 2024
Burn patient with MDRAB at
Kendall Regional Medical Center
July 19, 2024 MDRAB first
reported in multiple patients at
Willowbrook Methodist in Ft
Worth Texas. Patient reporting
was put in room following
wounded soldier.
Acinetobacter baumannii
from Iraq
The Coalition of the contaminated
from Iraq
The Coalition of the contaminated
Service personnel and private contractors from 40 countries have
received care at Landstuhl
received care at Landstuhl
DC
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