A bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics has recently led to "dozens of deaths" in large Israeli hospitals, a report on public television said. "The bacteria has been in most of the large hospitals in the country," Dr Galia Rahav, a specialist in infectious diseases at Tel Aviv's Tel Hashomer hospital said.
"Of 130 cases, there was a 30 percent death rate in our hospital," she said, adding that there was nothing that could be done to fight the bacteria which is from the klebsiella genus.
Klebsiella organisms can lead to a wide range of diseases, notably pneumonia, urinary tract infections, septicemia and soft tissue infections.
