Posted on 05/26/2016 12:58:23 PM PDT by C19fan
For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could mean "the end of the road" for antibiotics.
The antibiotic-resistant strain was found last month in the urine of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Defense Department researchers determined that she carried a strain of E. coli resistant to the antibiotic colistin, according to a study published Thursday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. The authors wrote that the discovery "heralds the emergence of a truly pan-drug resistant bacteria."
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A gift from 0bama and Jeb’s Dreamers.
Odds are pretty good that that “Pennsylvania woman” is either a Central American illegal or a Muslim import.
That sounds like more government nonsense. Rather than “rewards,” let the cost of the drugs reflect the expense of developing them, IOW, the free market. Of course, this would reduce the opportunities for graft, which is a major drawback.
If one case has been positively identified, it’s the tip of the iceberg. With this and Zika to look forward to this summer, it’s probably a good time to not get sick.
3 of my paternal grandparents smoked into their mid-late 90’s. My 4th paternal grandparent, died in the 40’s before I was born. He died of sepsis after a successful operation.
And whomever that comes across our open southern border courtesy of 0bama; soon to be just open if Hillary gets the WH.
I don’t really understand the reason for the lack of new antibiotics. Is it fundamentally a scientific problem, in that all of the low- and even medium-hanging fruit has already been picked, so we’re more or less out of options? Or is it that the incentive to create new ones, at the expense of not spending money to create other more profitable drugs, is not adequate? Or is it something else?
You’in is not sterile?
Your’in is not sterile?
Not much incentive to develop a drug that a person will take for a week or a month a few times in ones life. Better money on lifestyle drugs.
Ebola, West Nile not enuf?
Incurable TB not enuf?
Nope.
Obama and the CDC and the Complicit EXEMPT GOP
will work full time to make certain this disease
goes to EVERY states, EVERY grade school, by Quartering
.... while THEY remain EXEMPT.
I grow a little known plant, that can kill antibiotic resistant bacteria like MRSA.
There is also hope in phage therapy, something that was big once in the USSR. (using viruses to target bacteria)
The precursor to the zombie apocalypse.
Bacteria and viruses can quickly change their DNA and RNA developing defense mechanisms that make it so that drugs that did kill them or keep them from reproducing no longer work. Sometimes it is difficult to locate the “source” of the genetic change. It’s kind of like an on going war.
However, the price of meds in the US is too high. Drug companies make too much money and drive up the cost of health care.
Apparently there’s not enough fear and panic over zika.
Obama high fives and exults “I love it when a plan comes together!!!”.
The truth is that we really can only stay one step ahead of any virus. Any antibiotic will eventually be overcome by the virus.
I was brought up to live a natural lifestyle-I’ve always done so-while other people demanded some antibiotics for every little thing, my family avoided them unless there was an absolute need, be it illness or injury-people thought we we were all naturalist freaks. Now all these years later, the same medical profession that gave antibiotics out like party favors are saying bacteria have become resistant-well duh...
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