Posted on 01/01/2016 4:03:42 PM PST by bitt
Epidemiologists — people who track diseases — use an expression: Seek and ye shall find. It's a reminder that sometimes when you see a phenomenon, it may not be entirely new. It may be that you've only just noticed it.
Well, the world seems to be having a major seek-and-ye-shall-find moment right now with a worrisome new superbug.
In late December, reports emerged that the mcr-1 gene, which confers resistance to an important antibiotic of last-resort, has been found in bacteria previously collected in the Netherlands, Laos, Algeria, Thailand, and France. There is reason to believe it may also be circulating in Bolivia, Peru, Tunisia, Portugal, Malaysia, and possibly Vietnam and Cambodia.
The journal that has published many of these findings, the Lancet Infectious Diseases, indicated on its Twitter feed that it has more mcr-1 reports in its hopper: "There will be another wave of reports soon."...
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
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And doctors continue to hand out antibiotics for every little sniffle.
Although I’ve never been to Mexico I’ve read that for years Mexicans have been able to walk into a pharmacy and get various antibiotics without a prescription.Presumably the same happens elsewhere in the world.Add to that Westerners who demand antibiotics for every little sniffle and disaster was bound to happen.
Hussein is bringing it in on every plane, bus and ship.
And the irony is that antibiotics have no effect against colds, or the flu, which are viruses.
You can buy anything at a Mexican Pharmacia.
A few things require prescription but often there is an ‘MD’ next door who writes them for a few bucks wo even seeing you.
Used to live in El Paso.
When they restricted steroid sales in the US people were lined up for blocks in Juarez to buy them...idiots!
I think even Mexico has since restricted steroid sales. (T not E)
Add to those problems the fact most beef,pork and chicken sold in this country comes from animals fed antibiotics daily.
Colloidal silver.
India.
Colloidal silver.
Someone told me to also get some Oil of Oregano. Do you agree?
Also....The antibiotics fed routinely to animals.
Ping....
How much time do we have until everything is antibiotic resistant? Thirty years? At best...
It’s not so much that doctors too easily handout antibiotics, but that they handout too little the first time around. This enables the bug to develop a resistance before a stronger dose is finally prescribed.
Others mention antibiotics don’t stop viruses, but often with viruses a secondary infection comes with it that must be hit with antibiotics
In the meantime, we need to invent new antibiotics. That would buy us some time. But the problem is that there's no money in it for the drug companies.
Nature wins no matter what. Stop all See Uh Oh 2 and she’ll still kick our arrogant butts in the end. So to speak.
Seems to me that I read that Scripps or someplace had successfully used “nano sponges” to help get rid of resistant bugs. Now I will have to go find what I read.
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