Posted on 05/13/2018 1:13:22 PM PDT by LucyT
A frightening flesh-eating disease is currently making its way across Australia, and puzzled scientists and officials aren’t sure how to stop this mysterious condition from wreaking havoc.
Cases of an infection known as Buruli ulcer have spiked in recent years in the country, rising 150 percent from 74 cases in 2013 to 186 in 2016. It shows no signs of slowing down; last year saw a projected 286 cases.
The infection causes unsightly skin ulcers that destroy the skin and the soft tissue around it. Complicating matters is the fact that scientists aren’t sure how it is spread or how to prevent it. They know it is caused by the Mycobacterium ulcerans bacterium, which is in the same family as the microbes behind leprosy and tuberculosis – hardly a comforting thought. It creates a toxin that destroys the tissue and creates big ulcers that are typically seen on the arms and legs.
While an eight-week course of antibiotics seems to do the trick for some people, others need surgery to remove some of the affected skin or even amputation. Those who don’t get it treated early enough face long-term disabilities, limited joint movement, and other problems.
It has also been reported in countries throughout the Western Pacific, South America, and Africa, with Nigeria being another hotspot.
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Obama says send the patients to Texas.
You stop it by removing price controls from antibiotics. Allow the makers to compete and the prices will start high and go down. Price controls kill people. Ask anybody with a heart condition in Canada how easy it is to obtain price controlled medications.
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Photo at Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_ulcerans
(One more thing to worry about.)
This disease may run its course or we may find a cure, but modern man is really ripe for a pandemic with horrific die off. We have kept ourselves generally free from wholesale death by nasty diseases for so long now, that we are ripe to see an unstoppable disease simply decimate earth’s population. Decimate may be too mild a word, meaning one in ten. We can probably look forward to a future pandemic killing a third to a half of the earth’s population.
The people who think we are overpopulated should be pleased.
Fifth paragraph in excerpt: "While an eight-week course of antibiotics seems to do the trick for some people, others need surgery to remove some of the affected skin or even amputation."
LOL! Forgot all about that. Ebola spreading through Africa and B.Hussein wanted to import it because being it isn’t fair that it’s localized just in Africa
Wasn’t Hillary just there recently? She could be a carrier...
More refugees will solve the problem.
It has to do with recovering the cost of developing new antibiotics. The price of drugs is controlled by most countries. That means it is impossible to recover the huge cost of development and testing. Therefore few new antibiotics are being developed. The return on antibiotics is much less than the return on medicines that must be used long term, like antidepressants.
When a drug manufacturer in the US makes a new drug, say it sells for $100 per pill here. But in order to be allowed to make the drug, the maker has to agree to allot a certain amount to countries with controlled drug prices. Let’s say, $5 per pill in, for example, Canada. When you consider the development costs, the drug companies are often taking a loss on medications that go to foreign countries. Because of the short (sporadic) use of antibiotics in comparison with other long term use drugs, it makes no sense to develop new antibiotics given the costs involved vs the long term returns. The patent protections will run out long before the drug has recouped the development costs.
Much of this cost is due to regulation, which is intended to make the end user safer. But if the costs are high enough the drugs won’t be developed and the would-be end user dies instead. But, as far as the governments are concerned, that is much better than having him experience side effects.
Have they tried napalm?
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
We’re nearing the end of effective antibiotics. Not good.
Counting down until some “immigrant” brings it here 10, 9, ...
Brown recluse spider bites will do the same thing.
Olive Leaf Extract.
I’d try Manuka Honey. It has been reported to kill MRSA.
Stop bringing in 3rd world savages and encouraging butt sex.
Feces spreads disease
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