HYDERABAD: Forget the normal bacteria like E coli present in chicken sold in Hyderabad markets. It is now the turn of superbugs to contaminate the chicken meat.
In a cause for concern, an international team of researchers including those from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) has found superbugs in 46 per cent of the chicken meat samples sold in Hyderabad city and parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. These superbugs have developed resistance to a plethora of antibiotics, which will only increase the cost of hospitalisation or medication in affected individuals.
The researchers warned that poultry meat contaminated by multi-drug resistant and pathogenic E coli could cause diseases in human beings.
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