Let me make a guess:
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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No mention in any article I’ve seen about the woman from PA. Did she die? Has she recovered. They’ve known about this for a month. Why now? Is Hillary doing poorly?
Given the speed with which HIV has savaged the population, it’s only a matter of time for this.
The fuse has been lit.
This should be in breaking news. This is a disaster. We are going to pay for it within the next 5-10 years. Maybe less.
Let me make a guess:
Except that viral conditions can give rise to bacterial conditions. After a bacterial condition is dealt with then the body, having less of a strain, can more easily deal with the virus. Or so I have found.
From what I have heard people in the US often pay substantially more for the same drug as people in other countries. I find this upsetting. Once again we are financially bearing the burdens of the world and being taken advantage of.
The Pharmaceutical companies are the kings of privatizing the gains, and socializing the losses.
We shouldn't sell drugs to rest of the world if they're not paying their share. Social Darwinism.
See Medieval Potion Kills Superbug MRSA Better Than Antibiotic Vancomycin - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3274679/posts
However, “Rumbaugh tested the stuff in tissue taken from mice infected with MRSA. The salve will have to be made using more modern methods before anyone can test it in a living animal, she said.”
This old recipe may kill the colistin-resistant E. coli also.
There is a good chance that it will only work using the original methods and “more modern methods” will weaken the salve. But in any case it will take years and millions or billions of dollars before it would be approved if it will work with “modern methods.”
SO WHO is this person?
Key word; SUPPOSEDLY.
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