Surgeon General Vivek Murthy resigns, replaced by deputy Sylvia Trent-Adams

ABC News ^ | April 22, 2017

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Dr. Vivek Murthy announced on Friday that he has resigned from his post as U.S. Surgeon General. Deputy Surgeon General Sylvia Trent-Adams, a nurse, will serve as acting Surgeon General. "As my colleague Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams takes over as acting Surgeon General, know that our nation is in capable and compassionate hands," Murthy, a holdover from the Obama administration, wrote in a Facebook post

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Finally, a rear admiral who might just look good from behind.

[Mark17]

Well, I think that masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy.

Maybe not crazy, but I heard it can make people go blind, so when I see people wearing glasses, I am automatically suspicious. 😀😆😄😃

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Actually, I was kind of hoping the next Surgeon General would conduct a program of a unique character: attempting to subdue and eradicate drug resistant bacteria.

And not using the typical methods, but with a lot of “out of the box” thinking.

1) The biggest immediate threat to bacteria are viruses that attack them, called bacteriophages. They have been used for many years as an alternative to antibiotics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

The downside is that bacteria adapt against bacteriophages even faster than they do to antibiotics.

2) The next immediate threat to bacteria are other bacteria, by occupying the space they need to reproduce. Our intestines have from 300-1000 kinds of bacteria, but only 30-40 take up almost all the available space.

Probiotics are sold with the idea that they are from these 30-40 kinds and will replenish the existing “good” bacteria. We need to find some way to create a probiotic and prebiotic (food for the bacteria) “flood” to rapidly change a person’s

3) Another effect that is known in Japan, China and Korea, is to use non-harmful bacteria from the same genus as harmful bacteria, to block the harmful bacteria. That is, both kinds eat the same stuff, and the waste of one is also toxic to the other. So if you consume lots of the good kind, it will protect you from the bad kind.

This is a wide open research field in the west, but might be one of our most effective means of combating drug resistant bacteria.

4) The last thing is ongoing, the production of new antibiotics.