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| Antibiotic-resistant diseases pose 'apocalyptic' threat, top expert says |
| 2013-01-25 |
 [GUARDIAN.CO.UK] Chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies tells MPs issue should be added to national risk register of civil emergenciesWe're up to about two apocalypses a month now, I think. There are about 250 horsemen, maybe more, but I don't think they're all going to smite us at once. I'm going to go eat an alar-soaked apple. No one under age 40 will get that... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 "The need to do 'something' whenever bad or merely unpleasant things happen is probably responsible for most of our problems." It's definitely the cause of a LOT of bad law, #5 Glenmore, :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-01-25 17:09 |
| #14 Is this the new wonder cure? Blowing up superbugs: IBM reveals nanotech gel that can 'explode' cells Firm says breakthrough could replace antibiotics 'hydrogel' could be used for creams, coating for medical instruments and injections into infections wounds It can disrupt the membrane of bacterial cells, causing them to 'explode' |
| Posted by: tipper 2013-01-25 15:51 |
| #13 Swine flu infected 'fifth of people' At least one in five people, including half of schoolchildren, were infected with swine flu during the first year of the pandemic in 2009, according to data from 19 countries. It is thought the virus killed 200,000 people around the world. |
| Posted by: tipper 2013-01-25 13:33 |
| #12 And the next procedure involves multiple fecal transplants at once, using a fan to distribute... |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2013-01-25 10:43 |
| #11 which are free at most public/gas station restrooms |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-01-25 10:43 |
| #10 And if probiotics don't work, fecal transplants have shown effectiveness. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-01-25 09:16 |
| #9 RJ, and now you can buy Probiotics to replace all the good stuff the antis killed off. Just got off an antibiotic regime to kill off a really nasty tooth abcess and they told me to take a probiotic to put back the good gut stuff. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-01-25 09:07 |
| #8 We have "New" Antibiotics all the time, Not a problem. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-01-25 08:32 |
| #7 @no mo uro It's worse that that. Antibiotics mess up your stomach flora and that could be responsible for a whole host of immune disorders and obesity. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-01-25 08:24 |
| #6 Anti-biotic resistance is more generated by regulatory cost effects that encourage larger facilities than would otherwise be used. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-01-25 08:22 |
| #5 The need to do 'something' whenever bad or merely unpleasant things happen is probably responsible for most of our problems. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-01-25 07:50 |
| #4 Look up "tragedy of the commons" no mo uro. Personally, I'm not going to endenger my kid while farmers giving antibiotics to lifestock. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-01-25 05:54 |
| #3 Dr. White- People did this to themselves. Half the people I know take antibiotics when they get a cold, because they "have to do SOMETHING!" I was in the food store a couple of years back and overheard two young mommies talking about how to trick the pediatrician into giving their little darlings a prescription for antibiotics by lying about the color of their snot (sounds crazy but I'm not making this up). Nice job, mommy, you gave me a drug that did nothing to stop the virus that is causing the cold, but will mean that I won't survive the infection I'm going to get at 35 years old. But hey, you got to feel like supermommy for a couple of days! |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2013-01-25 05:36 |
| #2 Those OWG Caliphate + Ummah-happy Islamic MilTerrs widout Nukes will be ditto MilTerrs wid Biowar + Chemwar, etc. non-Nuke weapons, increasingly deadly in both Scale + Range. To paraph Daddy-O SEAN CONNERY in "Indiana Jones + Last Crusade" > "OUR SITUATION HAS NOT IMPROVED"! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-01-25 01:17 |
| #1 No one under age 40 will get that... Pity, that; since it gives you some idea of how long this rotten nonsense has been going on. Antibiotic resistance *is* a problem. But most people are going to encounter it when Granma goes into the hospital for some routine procedure and ends up dying from a hospital-acquired, drug-resistant, opportunistic pathogen. A tragedy, but rather low on the apocalypse scale. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-01-25 00:43 |