A new “superbug” bacteria Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae or CRE has infected hundreds of people in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.  Persons infected with the CRE bacteria have been found in Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina Hospitals.  CRE bacteria are able to resist carbapenem antibiotics.  These antibiotics are the strongest class of antibiotics.  Victims of CRE are found primarily in health care facilities. Seven people died at the National Institutes of Health clinical Center, near Washington D.C.  during the summer of 2012, including a 16 year boy. Death rates from CRE can be as high as 40%…