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Triple Threat: New Pneumonia Is Drug-Resistant, Deadly And Contagious

When microbiologist Sheng Chen and his team sequenced the microbes found in the pneumonia infections, they were shocked at what they saw.
Multidrug-resistant <em>Klebsiella pneumoniae</em> bacteria (digitally colored pink) are widespread in parts of China. Now this form of the pathogen has acquired genes that also make it more deadly.

In the past few years, there have been so many "superbugs" appearing in hospitals around the world, that we here at Goats and Soda haven't had the time or resources to report on all of them.

But a new type of pneumonia emerging in China seems so important that we

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