Just out of curiosity (and not to belittle your family’s grief and your mother’s suffering as I’m sure it was a horrifying thing. My dad also died of similar complications (going septic) from chemo which wiped out his immune system. Different cause, same type of presentation...)
...anyway, I think there is some value in the article in that the people who are trying to bring up this idea of antibioitic resistant bacteria are not really doing it scientifically just like the global warming crowd aren’t relying on real science. Create a crisis, and you have a captive audience.
I have seen research that says these strains have always been present, (just as the antibiotics themselves have always been present — what they are in essence is different molds that inhibit certain bacterial growth), so it doesn’t seem to me that antibiotic use is what is causing them... just like guns don’t cause more wars now than in the past. We just hear about them more readily.
Antibiotics don’t kill bacteria — your body still is the one that destroys them. It slows them down so that the body can actually catch up to the rate of reproduction of these bacteria. I am pretty sure in the articles I’ve read that the bacteria which are resistant to antibiotics are also weaker naturally and so they would only really flourish in the presence of an already compromised immune system. I could be wrong, I’m just remembering what I read off the top of my head.
MRSA is the super-strain of strep bacteria that is a result of
the patient being immune to ordinary antibiotics. This was
the official explanation given to our family back in 1999 by the doctors and nurses in the hospitals here. I trust the medical staff personnel here, since they are well trained and operated by Duke University, UNC, Eastern Carolina and Wake Forest Universities. All have excellent medical schools.
My point was that someone writing a vanity post, denouncing the medical condition of MRSA as some political ploy is an idiot. Then along comes the stupid, insensitive poster who takes a poke at me personally. I am sick of this on FR. It has become a pigsty of liberals and religious phonies who follow anything and anyone without any regard to truth or convictions,