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A superbug infection resistant to all 27 available antibiotics killed a woman in Reno, Nevada, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday, in issuing a precaution to hospitals nationwide.

While this superbug case was rare, sepsis blood infections reportedly kill an estimated 258,000 Americans each year.

Medical experts have been warning for years of the dangers of overprescribing antibiotics because of the potential for antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

The female patient who died this September from the superbug infection was a Washoe County, Nevada resident in her 70s who arrived in the United States in early August 2016 after an extended visit to India, the CDC said.

On August 18, she was admitted to an acute care hospital with a primary diagnosis of an infection called systemic inflammatory response syndrome, which likely resulted from an infected right hip.

A week after she was admitted, the hospital notified the Washoe County Health District in Nevada that the patient had a bacterial infection of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, called CRE.