Posted on 05/20/2016 5:44:19 PM PDT by Lorianne
Pharmaceutical companies should be offered billion dollar rewards to develop new antibiotics to tackle the rise of drug-resistant superbugs, the leader of a major government review recommends today.
Lord Jim O’Neill is also calling for bans on the widespread use of antibiotics on animals to avert a crisis that could see 10 million unnecessary deaths a year by 2050.
The former Goldman Sachs chief economist’s report into antimicrobial resistance (AMR) demands an urgent increase in the variety and supply of new antibiotics, as well as a global awareness campaign to educate people, including doctors, about the dangers of drug resistance.
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we are our own worse enemy....
Maybe docs shouldn’t prescribe them for every little thing.
A billion dollars?
That will just about cover the cost of waiting for approval...
I had a microbiologist colleague who couldn’t successfully explain to her own mother that antibiotics do nothing for viral infections.
Her mother got some viral infection. She felt horrible. She went to the doctor and insisted on getting antibiotics. The doctor, instead of taking the time to explain that they are useless against viruses, gave her a prescription. She took the antibiotics and started feeling better. Therefore, the antibiotics made her well.
The truth was that most viral infections are self-limiting, and she would have felt better anyway, without taking anything.
If my colleague could not explain this concept to her own mother—her mother who knows how bright and competent she is—then how do you get millions of people who do not have PhD scientist family members and don’t trust scientists anyway to understand?
so... won’t this new anti bacterial lead to an even more stubborn virus once the body get immune to it?
Bingo..... your correct on that.
These aren’t ‘superbugs’ anyway. They are just your normal virus. It ‘evolves’ to adapt to anything designed to resist it. Sure, you can stop it temporarily. It just figures out the ‘lock’ and designs a new ‘key’ though.
Also the antibiotic laden meat and poultry that has been consumed for many decades now.
Goldman Sachs ex-exec is demanding it. Maybe Goldman Sachs should pay for it since we aren't screening and quarantining people coming in from places at risk. They had it confined to one area and then whooppee! let's play refugee and go to where the pickings are better.
How many of these “superbugs” are antibiotic-resistant strains of STDs incubated in petri dishes like San Francisco?
Save your money, I will give you the answer for free. Colloidal Silver, I have used it since January of 2015 and I haven’t had a cold since.
In your mother's eyes you will always be three years old and somewhat retarded...
lol
They can’t even come up with a product to treat a simple skin yeast infection! What makes them think a super antibiotic will do any better, one rife with side effects.
My cousin has been on one for 6 months, no immune system left, thrush mouth and female yeast infection as a result. And they don’t respond to their drugs for that.
Try explaining to your PCP that you can’t take his perfected antibiotic for a bacteria infection because of the side effects. It’s worse than trying to educated a person who does not know the difference.
Keflex and Cipro are on my drug reaction list. DON’T prescribe them. Several others too like Microbid, 1 pill spent the night with head in toilet from the puking it caused and it was not the bacterial infection, because one didn’t exist...dirty specimen cups came back positive. He has since been replaced. He was a Cholesterol control freak.
Technically, it is difficult to develop antibiotics. There are plenty of things that kill bacteria, but, unfortunately, the mitochondria that keep us alive are also bacteria. Plus, other cell structures are similar to bacteria components. The challenge is coming up with something that is lethal to bacteria, but not animal cells.
Antibiotics like Cipro and Keflex should not be given routinely, but only for infections that are resistant to other common antibiotics.
Whoever gave you dirty specimen cups should be fired, pronto. Specimen cups should be removed from the wrapper by the patient, capped by the patient, and not opened until they reach the lab for analysis. Which should happen fairly quickly, especially if you go to the lab to provide specimens.
Your doctor should also listen to you if you say that you cannot tolerate a certain drug. When I went to get a colonoscopy, I said I did not want the fentanyl. So I got the procedure with nothing but a sedative—which worked fine, I remember almost nothing of the procedure.
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