Posted on 12/01/2013 8:22:41 PM PST by JerseyanExile
It could be scary. In the years before antibiotics, 90% if deaths were caused by infectious diseases. After antibiotics became widespread, that figure changed to 10%. Now heart disease and Cancer are the big killers.
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And GC and Syphilis were present in the population. There were catheters that men carried under their hatband ribbons to stick up their urethra's in order to void because of the damage from gonorrhea.
And the syphilitic babies who were born blind and with IQs of less than 10 that peopled the centers for the feeble-minded. I cared for one who was grown in a nursing home when I was young.
Back then one had to at least have a negative Wassermann, which was a test for syphilis in order to get a marriage license. Part of public health prevention.
Bingo!
That and Hillary got Slick to pass a law for her idiotic Hillary care that took all of the monetary incentives out of creating antibiotics and vaccine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/opinion/13kristof.html?_r=0
...The mortality data for prostitutes is staggering. The American Journal of Epidemiology published a meticulous study finding that the “workplace homicide rate for prostitutes” is 51 times that of the next most dangerous occupation for women, working in a liquor store. The average age of death of the prostitutes in the study was 34.
** Chris Grussendorf, “No Humans Involved, Part One”, http://www.catwinternational.org/factbook/usa2_prost.php
...Women in prostitution have a death rate that is 40 times higher than women who are not involved in prostitution.**
But you did you know that Old McDonald is a really bad speller?
Researching my family tree, every family had 8, 9 or 10+ kids. One or two children would die and the survivors would live well into their 80s or 90s. From 1700 on, every generation was like this.
How are plastic polymers even remotely similar to human cells?
Nano’s are the next unknown nightmare.
Sulfanilomide
My daddy was born in May 1920.
His daddy died in June 1920 from an infection in a cut on his finger.
Beginning in the 1490s the Great Pox (syphilis)
ravaged Europe for nearly a century.
It could happen again...
Personally, I think bacteriophages show great promise. Especially once genetic engineering reaches a level where they can tailor the bacteriophage right there in the hospital and tell it to go after a particular breed of bacteria.
Watch this PBS Frontline video - it’ll scare the crap outta you ...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/
Its the full video - about 53 minutes.
It follows 3 cases of different varieties of “super bugs”. One in the American Southwest, one from a vacation in India, and a breakout at NIH.
Excellent commercial.
>> a test for syphilis in order to get a marriage license
Now the state is promoting anal sex. Go figure.
No worries. Probiotics attack overgrowths in billion man armies. Not sure Americans will ever get past the idea that bacteria are bad, almost all bacteria serve some useful purpose.
As long as the government stays out of it we will be fine. Humans have a limitless capacity to invent and innovate.
Of course if government is involved I can see a time when we will live in a world made by hand and die young because they tried to "conserve" instead of advance.
Seems I read recently that nano tech may the answer. The rough surface they create totally destroys all micro organisms, The “germs” that cause infections may be defeted before entry.
At the top it gives you a “read time”. I’ve never seen that before.
Setting timer...
One of my pet peeves too. People acting like people in modern times are more immoral than they were 100 years ago. Ridiculous.
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