Posted on 08/23/2010 12:17:34 PM PDT by Publius804
Just 65 years ago, David Livermore's paternal grandmother died following an operation to remove her appendix. It didn't go well, but it was not the surgery that killed her. She succumbed to a series of infections that the pre-penicillin world had no drugs to treat. Welcome to the future.
The era of antibiotics is coming to a close. In just a couple of generations, what once appeared to be miracle medicines have been beaten into ineffectiveness by the bacteria they were designed to knock out. Once, scientists hailed the end of infectious diseases. Now, the post-antibiotic apocalypse is within sight.
Hyperbole? Unfortunately not. The highly serious journal Lancet Infectious Diseases yesterday posed the question itself over a paper revealing the rapid spread of multi-drug-resistant bacteria. "Is this the end of antibiotics?" it asked.
Doctors and scientists have not been complacent, but the paper by Professor Tim Walsh and colleagues takes the anxiety to a new level. Last September, Walsh published details of a gene he had discovered, called NDM 1, which passes easily between types of bacteria called enterobacteriaceae such as E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae and makes them resistant to almost all of the powerful, last-line group of antibiotics called carbapenems. Yesterday's paper revealed that NDM 1 is widespread in India and has arrived here as a result of global travel and medical tourism for, among other things, transplants, pregnancy care and cosmetic surgery.
"In many ways, this is it," Walsh tells me. "This is potentially the end. There are no antibiotics in the pipeline that have activity against NDM 1-producing enterobacteriaceae. We have a bleak window of maybe 10 years, where we are going to have to use the antibiotics we have very wisely...
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I just got my picc line removed yesterday after 56 days of cubicin. I’m running out of antibioitics.
The problem is there is no $ incentive to produce antibiotics. No long term monetary benefit to the pharm companies to do so.
and colloidal silver
Actually, this is the sort of problem where government support is very important: there is little market incentive to develop antibiotics compared with drugs to treat chronic conditions.
Antimicrobial research goes on.
New antibiotics are very profitable and enter the market every year.
New approaches to fighting infection are proceding and gives the hope that medicines of the fairly near future that will be effective and not elicit resistence like current drugs do.
Forget about saving lives for the moment, there is just too much money on the table to abandon antibiotic research. Your roommate was overly pessimistic.
“What ever happened to swine flu?”
I took extra vitamin D myself, but I admit, I never knowingly came into contact with someone exhibiting symptoms of it, just contact with those after they said they had had it. The way the cdc quit testing and everyone with any symptom claimed swine flu, who knows how bad or not it really was.
“Why”
Because companies want to develop drugs you will be on the rest of your life, not 5 days.
Big mistake is using anti-biotics as a part of feeding cattle. Big mistake !
Scientists Pry New Information from Disease-Causing, Shellfish-Borne Bacterium
Ok. I'll stop.
I spent about 5 minutes and came up with the above links in the above few posts.
Point being: we're not freaking cavemen.
We can freaking solve problems.
This is all sky-is-falling talk from the UK.
Absolute nonsense. Total dribble. There are literally millions of new molds to be discovered and new natural and synthetic antibiotics to be created. What a moron!
I’ll take your word on the oregano oil. I know first hand MRSA is trying to kill me via epidural abscesses and osteomyleitis(its in the lumbar bone now).
Never had a sore or boil. I’m lucky to be able to walk today. Do silver, manuka honey, etc won’t help me.
When that bacteria evelves into a different kind of life, that will be evolution. This is an example of adaptation.
It is still a bacyeria, not a multi-cell animal.
Research into antibiotics hasn’t happened in years.
Why?
Money, lawsuits.
If you have MRSA go to this site:
http://www.allimax.us/April2005.pdf
It’s a garlic derivative (very powerful). I do believe they are curing MRSA quite readily and it’s cheap. They have studies from the UK Hospitals to prove it.
The reality is its a war that never ends, complacency will cause a pandemic, which will refocus efforts, those efforts will eventually be successful which will cause us to have the upper hand.. get complacent, and then the cycle starts over again.
They still work. To say they don’t work at all is absurd.
Thanks for the link. Like I said, just had my picc line removed yesterday. Every 6 months my mrsa rears is ugly head and am running out of serious options.
Get or build a colloid silver generator and buy some 99.9% silver wire.
And apple cider vinegar.
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