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The Coming Epidemic: US Woman Dies Of Infection Resistant To All 26...

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...Available Antibiotics!

Super Bugs Starting To Hit The U.S.

The American media has been very silent on the issue of what are known as “superbugs”. Superbugs are bacteria that are completely resistant to antibiotics which means medical treatment will have a limited effect on those who are infected with superbugs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-woman-dies-infection-resistant-26-available-antibiotics-223147289.html


Related:
Superbugs to kill 'more than cancer' by 2050
Drug resistant infections will kill an extra 10 million people a year worldwide - more than currently die from cancer - by 2050 unless action is taken, a study says.
Superbugs to kill 'more than cancer' by 2050 - BBC News

People who get on their soapbox about gun violence, need to look at this problem, which is going to be much, much worse.
 
Has zero to do with gun violence. There is no economic incentive for drug companies to spend 5 billion developing a pill you will take for a couple weeks over a pill you will need to take for a decade. To fund the research is going to require extensive government investment and the party that worries about gun violence is not the party that opposes new government spending. Our only hope probably lies in socialist countries in Europe or in the communist country of China to come up with these antibiotics quite frankly, but then the FDA will bend over backwards to keep them out of reach to the US market.
 
We need to get a move on with that nanotechnology I keep hearing about because antibiotics won't be of much use in the coming future.
 
...Available Antibiotics!

Super Bugs Starting To Hit The U.S.

The American media has been very silent on the issue of what are known as “superbugs”. Superbugs are bacteria that are completely resistant to antibiotics which means medical treatment will have a limited effect on those who are infected with superbugs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-woman-dies-infection-resistant-26-available-antibiotics-223147289.html


Related:
Superbugs to kill 'more than cancer' by 2050
Drug resistant infections will kill an extra 10 million people a year worldwide - more than currently die from cancer - by 2050 unless action is taken, a study says.
Superbugs to kill 'more than cancer' by 2050 - BBC News

People who get on their soapbox about gun violence, need to look at this problem, which is going to be much, much worse.

This is a very serious problem for us.

"Where might bacteria go to hang out and swap plasmids? Well your gut is a big bag of bacteria. One day, you might pick up some bacteria with a plasmid carrying resistance to colistin. Years later, you might pick up some bacteria with a plasmid carrying resistance to carbapenems. And so. They start swapping plasmids. All this time you are healthy, and these bacteria just lurk in your gut, not causing much trouble. Then you get sick, your immune system is down, and you take antibiotics for an infection. The antibiotics kill everything but the resistant bacteria, which have by now collected all the resistance genes and no competition. That’s how you get a pan-resistant infection.

The danger isn’t just that a single pan-resistant bacteria emerges and terrorizes the world. It’s that pan-resistant bacteria can keep emerging independently. The nightmare might go away, only to come back somewhere else."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/513050/
 
Has zero to do with gun violence. There is no economic incentive for drug companies to spend 5 billion developing a pill you will take for a couple weeks over a pill you will need to take for a decade. To fund the research is going to require extensive government investment and the party that worries about gun violence is not the party that opposes new government spending. Our only hope probably lies in socialist countries in Europe or in the communist country of China to come up with these antibiotics quite frankly, but then the FDA will bend over backwards to keep them out of reach to the US market.

I agree in part, this has zero to do with gun violence but to hear the Left talk, gun violence is the worst thing going. They need to dwell on the important matters that affect millions of people, not a thousand or so.

We need to get a move on with that nanotechnology I keep hearing about because antibiotics won't be of much use in the coming future.

Agreed.

This is a very serious problem for us.

"Where might bacteria go to hang out and swap plasmids? Well your gut is a big bag of bacteria. One day, you might pick up some bacteria with a plasmid carrying resistance to colistin. Years later, you might pick up some bacteria with a plasmid carrying resistance to carbapenems. And so. They start swapping plasmids. All this time you are healthy, and these bacteria just lurk in your gut, not causing much trouble. Then you get sick, your immune system is down, and you take antibiotics for an infection. The antibiotics kill everything but the resistant bacteria, which have by now collected all the resistance genes and no competition. That’s how you get a pan-resistant infection.

The danger isn’t just that a single pan-resistant bacteria emerges and terrorizes the world. It’s that pan-resistant bacteria can keep emerging independently. The nightmare might go away, only to come back somewhere else."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/513050/

That's why I eat raw garlic and onions, every day in my salad, 7 days a week. Bacteria doesn't like those things too well. Not just any garlic from the store, a potent strain of organic Italian garlic, grown right in my garden.
 
I agree in part, this has zero to do with gun violence but to hear the Left talk, gun violence is the worst thing going. They need to dwell on the important matters that affect millions of people, not a thousand or so.

Perhaps that is just the part you hear and not the sum total of what they say. I am not sure these superbugs will actually affect millions in our life times, but they are definitely a problem. They often seem to be contracted in hospitals and other medical facilities moreso than anywhere else. There is a related problem that we are experiencing now though and that is the rise of sepsis and septic shock which can effectively turn treatable infections into life-threatening infections as soon as they reach the blood stream. I am not sure exactly why the rise in this cases. I know of one case locally of it happening with a woman in her 30's who died of septic shock while being actively treated for a seemingly simple UTI. Scary stuff. When you get sick, going to the doctor may end up being the least safe thing you can do, but who the hell knows.
 
I might be infected with it. I been fighting it almost 3 momths now. Have been to my doctor twice and taking meds but still have infection. Its a really nasty virus

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