Three patients were found to be infected by new Superbug a.k.a NDM-1, which originated in India.  These patients are from  Massachusetts, Illinois and California.  Below is list of main points of the story.

• News articles do not say whether these patients travelled to India for tretment or otherwise.
• All the U.S patients were treated successfully, so far there are no fatalities of U.S patients.
• It is not clear how many people might have died because of NDM-1.
• NDM-1 is a is a close genetic cousin of another bacterium that's been present in the United States for many years.
• There are some antibiotics which are effective against NDM-1.
• New antibiotics are not discovered as drug companies do not make much money from selling antibiotics
• Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is spreaded because of lack of cleanliness and sterility in hospitals.
• In Asia, it is very easy and common practice to get antibiotics without a prescription, which is the reason for over using of these drugs ultimately creating these kind of drug resisatnt bacteria.
• Government of India recently setup a task force to draft a policy on usage of antibiotics.

News Article in Businessweek

Here is a link to LA Times article about how the hospitals are planning to tackle to the patients who travelled to foreign countries.  Patients are isolated and tested for this drug resistant bacteria, so that bacteria is not spreaded.  Same procedure is also followed by French Hospitals.