Posted on 01/02/2007 10:38:12 AM PST by blam
Infectious disease ping. (Thanks to Oorang for the article)
MRSA = Chicken Flu = Ebola = SARS = Y2K = Swine Flu
MRSA is old news in the US long term care industry.
?? Otherwise healthy?
Old news in UK's NHS as well since cleanliness standards fell.
It isn't so much cleanliness here as it's seen as the end result of anti-biotic overuse during the last 40 years or so....
Are these super-bacterial strains being created by the overuse and abuse of antibiotics? If so, why hasn't the federal government banned the use of antibiotics in hand soap and the like? The wonderful thing about antibiotics is that they can kill bacteria within the human body without killing the human. There are any number of substances that can be used to kill germs outside of the body without creating antibiotic resistant strains.
Morgellons disease--run for your lives!
The resistant strains are the ones that survive when you quit taking your 10-day supply of penicillin on the 6th day because you feel better. If you'd taken the whole 10 days' worth, they would have died too, rather than reproduce and spread. That's how we've been lucky enough to develop a drug-resistant strain of TB, too - homeless people who get meds prescribed, then don't pick up their refills (or take them at all).
What's with the large boils?
Bubos?
While I agree with vaccines, I do not agree with the chicken pox vaccine. I think it's for the convenience of schools and parents.
Another side-effect of Canada's liberal immigration policy?
Additionally, some diseases are simply adapting to the above tactics. Because there isn't a treatment that can purge your body completely of HIV, the AIDS virus is particularly effective at evolving new and dangerous strains that are resistant to drug cocktails and rotating treatments. Recent reports also suggest that HIV may be evolving into a more deadly and faster-spreading form.
Fortunately for us all, nature does have a way of correcting itself in these situations. Unfortunately, that way is known as an epidemic. When a disease evolves into a sufficiently deadly and contagious strain, it rips through a population, killing off the weak and ensuring that the strong survive and pass their genes to the next generation.
FWIW if you care about public health issues.
Yep. Don't forget the asteroids. The scaremongers never quit.
I posit that this is a problem stemming from the wide spread use of SteriPaks.
In the old days, The entire room was kept sterile. With the pop open packs now, people forget about the surroundings.
You're very right. It's made healthcare providors lazy about basic sanitation. I also think its because anti-biotics were used to treat every minor complaint for so long that the humans lost resistance and the bugs became stronger.
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