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Originally Posted by Kali  Do you ever wonder if this could be terrorist related? I mean Staph has been around since man but this stuff is worse? What if some group is putting it out here?  |
Yeah, the media terrorists.
MRSA has been around forever.
The media has only just recently decided to whip everyone into a frenzy about it, because they've discovered that they can use it to sell more papers or whatever it is they're trying to do.
You know, there's still
Leprosy in the US; Hansen's Disease, it's called now.
It's most common among immigrants; there are a number of cases in every state in the continental US.
It's not as curable as they'd like you to believe, either (although it's also not very communicable; 95% of the population is naturally immune to it, and even if you're one of the unlucky 5%, it's not that easy to contract via casual contact).
Don't you think the media could make a story out of
that, if they felt like it?
Third-world countries sending Leprosy-ridden immigrants into the US as some sort of germ-warfare/ terrorism attempt?
But, whatever, no. Methicillin-resistant Staph was not created by terrorists. It's always been around in hospitals and nursing homes and things.
We'll soon be seeing an increase in antibiotic resistant Strep, as well, and drug resistant TB, and all sorts of other diseases that used to be treatable.
Here's the thing. For the past fifty
years, since antibiotics were invented and the use of them became widespread, doctors have been bullied by patients into prescribing antibiotics for every little cough, sniffle, and twinge, even when they know perfectly well these things aren't bacteria-related and therefore won't be touched by antibiotics. They prescribed them anyway.
People didn't used to go to the doctor five or six times a year, like they do now.
Why do they go? In hopes that the doctor will give them pills. They'd feel kind of ripped off, if they paid all that money to go to the doctor, and then left with
nothing. They want a prescription for antibiotics. They want it regardless of
what's wrong with them, regardless of whether it will help or merely serve as a placebo.
People are ignorant. They've never understood that 90% of colds and sore throats are viral, and that antibiotics won't touch them.
They've never understood that antibiotics aren't completely
harmless, that they have side effects, in some cases lasting ones.
Doctors preferred to profit by this ignorance rather than educate the populace.
This is the result.
Drug-resistant Staph. Drug-resistant lots of things.
But at least doctors are no longer tossing antibiotics (including Zithromax- ie, "Zpac"- the strongest antibiotic available in pill form) around like confetti.
I believe that whatever organization oversees them has forced them to become more conservative in their prescription-writing practices.
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