[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Superbug is here (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/26/2016 9:35:32 PM EDT
| Interesting article, possibly very big consequences: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/ |
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Interesting article, possibly very big consequences: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/ Uh huh. Yeah. Worried to death. Nothing sensationalist to see here. Panic and freak out, we're all going to die! |
| Health officials said the case in Pennsylvania, by itself, is not cause for panic. The strain found in the woman is treatable with some other antibiotics. But researchers worry that the antibiotic-resistant gene found in the bacteria, known as mcr-1, could spread to other types of bacteria that can already evade other types of antibiotics. |
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Well, that's what happens when you have a bunch of dumbass doc-in-a box Urgent Care monkeys and Hospitalists throwing antibiotics at everything. In most 3rd world countries you can buy any prescription meds you want whenever you want. We are bring people in from the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America. where they are a breeding ground for drug resistant diseaces |
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Well, that's what happens when you have a bunch of dumbass doc-in-a box Urgent Care monkeys and Hospitalists throwing antibiotics at everything. While that isn't great the food industry is worse... 80 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are fed to farm animals. Wrap your head around that shit. |
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#1 wire? Pull up bro! |
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This could be bigger than swine flu Maybe even bigger than SARS Maybe bigger than Avian/Bird Flu Maybe bigger than Ebola I still think climate change should be our biggest concern.................. I am kind of wondering what the real issue is that they're trying to divert our attention away from. |
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If you know where this comes from..... http://www.canosoarus.com/06NWgame/NW%20Images/S%20Virus%20CLR.JPG Is that from the nuclear war card game...I still have a set 
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While that isn't great the food industry is worse... 80 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are fed to farm animals. Wrap your head around that shit. Quoted:
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Well, that's what happens when you have a bunch of dumbass doc-in-a box Urgent Care monkeys and Hospitalists throwing antibiotics at everything. While that isn't great the food industry is worse... 80 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are fed to farm animals. Wrap your head around that shit. Yep. It also makes its way up the food chain. |
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I came here to see this. I am dissapoint... 
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A few years ago I heard we were working on a new kind of anti-biotic. Supposedly for anti-biotics to work, is sort of like inserting a key into a lock. All a bacteria has to do to become resistant is to develop a different lock and they key doesn't work. The new stuff acts like a tiny microbe that stabs the bacteria with it's skin. The people behind the research said that bacteria cannot become resistant because it would be like humans just all of a sudden developing bullet proof skin. I'm paraphrasing, but it was a very interesting read. I wonder how that's progressed. ETA: Like other posters though. It's a new year, and we MUST have something new to panic about.  |
| Somebody with more current microbi work correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there limited "spaces" available on a plasmid for coding different forms of resistances? Can a single bacterium actually have all of the different forms of resistance or do some "fall off" when new resistances are coded for? |
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Well, that's what happens when you have a bunch of dumbass doc-in-a box Urgent Care monkeys and Hospitalists throwing antibiotics at everything. In most 3rd world countries you can buy any prescription meds you want whenever you want. We are bring people in from the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America. where they are a breeding ground for drug resistant diseaces god, you are a spelling resistant disease 
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Quoted: Somebody with more current microbi work correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there limited "spaces" available on a plasmid for coding different forms of resistances? Can a single bacterium actually have all of the different forms of resistance or do some "fall off" when new resistances are coded for? And as mentioned this is from over use of antibiotics. Especially when people don't take the full course. Also poor isolation practices with in the hospital system is what spreads it to multiple patients. |
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I came here to see this. I am dissapoint...
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I came here to see this. I am dissapoint...
TC Nope, this thread is about something dangerous. |
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This could be bigger than swine flu Maybe even bigger than SARS Maybe bigger than Avian/Bird Flu Maybe bigger than Ebola I still think climate change should be our biggest concern.................. If by "climate change", you mean liberals, I agree completely. |
| I was living in a 2nd world Country (Bahamas).. Came down with what the Doc (American) said was some kind of super bug. The second time I showed up after taking a full course of antis that did not work...he gave me two different types of antibiotics. He claimed that the change up would take care of it. It did. Took 20 days, but worked. One was Levaquin (spelling) the other something I never heard of before, don't remember the name. |
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Interesting article, possibly very big consequences: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/ Health officials said the case in Pennsylvania, by itself, is not cause for panic. The strain found in the woman is treatable with some other antibiotics. So, the title is misleading. The "superbug" can be treated with antibiotics? Still, there is no doubt that antibiotics are some of the most overprescribed and misused drugs today. Not only do they make the "bad bugs" more resistant, they tend to screw up the "good bugs" in your body, that we depend on. |
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So, the title is misleading. The "superbug" can be treated with antibiotics? Still, there is no doubt that antibiotics are some of the most overprescribed and misused drugs today. Not only do they make the "bad bugs" more resistant, they tend to screw up the "good bugs" in your body, that we depend on. Quoted:
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Interesting article, possibly very big consequences: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/ Health officials said the case in Pennsylvania, by itself, is not cause for panic. The strain found in the woman is treatable with some other antibiotics. So, the title is misleading. The "superbug" can be treated with antibiotics? Still, there is no doubt that antibiotics are some of the most overprescribed and misused drugs today. Not only do they make the "bad bugs" more resistant, they tend to screw up the "good bugs" in your body, that we depend on. The issue with this "superbug" is that it is resistant to colistin. Bacteria can give their resistance to other bacteria, so basically any bacteria can become colistin-resistant now. Therefore, bugs that are resistant to everything but colistin can become resistant to everything including colistin. Do not underestimate the way bacteria share their bacterial resistance. It's really quite remarkable. |
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In most 3rd world countries you can buy any prescription meds you want whenever you want. We are bring people in from the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America. where they are a breeding ground for drug resistant diseaces This. Don't forget the 3rd world country next door either. |
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This. Don't forget the 3rd world country next door either. Quoted:
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In most 3rd world countries you can buy any prescription meds you want whenever you want. We are bring people in from the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America. where they are a breeding ground for drug resistant diseaces This. Don't forget the 3rd world country next door either. This is why the third world should be quarantined, isolated, and air-dropped a steady supply of muskets and Greek philosophy texts until things work themselves out. |
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we appear to be well into population overshoot, just a question of WHEN we reach the peak. The decrease, by whatever mode, will be very rapid when it comes. Only the Third World (China included) has an overpopulation problem. First World nations are suffering frighteningly low birth rates, approaching Children of Men levels among the most civilized ethnicities. Just look at the South Koreans. |
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This is why the third world should be quarantined, isolated, and air-dropped a steady supply of muskets and Greek philosophy texts until things work themselves out. Quoted:
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In most 3rd world countries you can buy any prescription meds you want whenever you want. We are bring people in from the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America. where they are a breeding ground for drug resistant diseaces This. Don't forget the 3rd world country next door either. This is why the third world should be quarantined, isolated, and air-dropped a steady supply of muskets and Greek philosophy texts until things work themselves out. 
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This could be bigger than swine flu Maybe even bigger than SARS Maybe bigger than Avian/Bird Flu Maybe bigger than Ebola I still think climate change should be our biggest concern.................. Not sure if serious... If you are, then My biggest concern now is doing a better job at conveying sarcasm in the written word.
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