The fear back home is of a backlash on the booming medical tourism industry, which is expected to see revenues of $ 1 billion every year from 2011.

Around 50 lakh foreign patients come to India for medical travel and their footfall has not dropped post the Lancet study.

Brinda from the US is in Mumbai for a hip replacement surgery. When asked if the superbug scare bothered her, she said: "We knew it was hugely exaggerated. My husband is a journalist, we know what to trust what not to."

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