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.
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?
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.
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...
bfl
When the DoD is openly involved in a epidemiology public health investigation, it’s a serious matter.
Some takeaways:
Medical settings are infectious bacteria rich environments, and this CRE bacteria is bound to spread to gyms and other crowded poorly cleaned facilities, just as MRSA bacteria has.
Thoroughly wash any scratch or laceration Immediately, no matter how minor.
Pursue medical attention for infected wounds, early on, don’t wait several days to see if it will just go away.
Manuka honey and collodial silver have been effective for topical wound treatment that did not respond to traditional antibiotic treatment (look up the application of Manuka honey for persistent bed sore ulcerations and battlefield wounds, for instance).
RE: “I think there is a desperate need for multi-billion dollar rewards for development of new antibiotics. One major issue is drug resistant bacteria will make operations impractical. The major killer of operations in the past was not the operation itself but infections afterward.”
The damn super bug is an E. Coli strain.
I remember 30 or 40 years back when all the aspiring DR. Frankensteins were just starting out with gene splicing and mettling with DNA.
The government allowed them to only do experiments on E. Coli, because it was such a benign bacteria that it could do no harm.
I also remember thinking, in a few years, it’ll turn into the Andromeda strain, because they really don’t know what they’re doing.
I really hate when this happens.
As serious as AIDS and Breast Cancer is, it is INSANE that we ignore what is clearly the biggest biological threat to mankind, simply because it doesn’t have SCREAMING CONSTITUENCY.
bttt