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1 posted on 08/23/2010 12:17:36 PM PDT by Publius804
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My former roommate is a doctor and he told me years ago that this would happen. Research into antibiotics hasn’t happened in years.


2 posted on 08/23/2010 12:19:28 PM PDT by VA_Gentleman ("Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented." -Jon Stewart)
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we are going to have to use the antibiotics we have very wisely

You can start by not prescribing them for absolutely everything!

3 posted on 08/23/2010 12:21:40 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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If Obamacare becomes a reality, a great deal of research money will be syphoned off for other projects. The redistribution of money by government to pet projects will be very detrimental to our health.


4 posted on 08/23/2010 12:22:09 PM PDT by mia
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"Once, scientists hailed the end of infectious diseases. Now, the post-antibiotic apocalypse is within sight. "

Not to worry.

Just put algore on it.

He'll fix the problem right up with the same superior creative intellect he used to invent the Internet and reverse the evil of everyone but him who uses fossil fuels.

5 posted on 08/23/2010 12:23:58 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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Learn how to use garlic, honey, oil of oregano, etc.


6 posted on 08/23/2010 12:25:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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"The emergence of antibiotic resistance is the most eloquent example of Darwin's principle of evolution that there ever was," says Livermore.

I dont know whether it's the most eloquent, but it certainly provides us with a useful example.

7 posted on 08/23/2010 12:25:29 PM PDT by freespirited
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Last year I was hit hard by MRSA. Put me in the hospital for four days. It took several months to get it out of my system.

The drugs that finally took care of it was a combination of older antibiotics.

My doctor told me that many of the new strains have become resistant to the new drugs and have actually left themselves open for attack via the older stuff.

It worked for me.


10 posted on 08/23/2010 12:27:49 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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two thumbs up for anti-biotics. Best medicine ever


11 posted on 08/23/2010 12:27:57 PM PDT by 4rcane
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Time to revisit Nature's Antibiotic
13 posted on 08/23/2010 12:28:20 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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My wife got a Klebsiella infection a few years ago following surgery. The area that got the infection had to be completley cut out, what was a wound the size of a walnut became the size of an orange. Most antibiotics failed, she had to get a pic line (IV) and administer very potent antibiotics that cost 1000.00 a pop twice a day. It took many months for her to recover. We were told that 50% die.

This is a very serious matter.


15 posted on 08/23/2010 12:28:41 PM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
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The problem is NOT ENOUGH antibiotics

they give you so little in an attempt to avoid developing a tolerance and prevent kindy failure... but all that does is allow the strongest bacteria to survive.

They should whack you up with enough to kill everything- so much that you have to eat yogurt and special stomach bacteria so you can digest food again

I was sick for almost 2 years from food poisoning- I finally cured myself by tripling my antiobiotics until it was gone, STARTING with one massive dose, and finishing with one after 3 days to let my body rest.

I dont know if I damaged my kidneys or not but I felt 1000% better for the first time in 2 years. And I would RATHER die than continue to live like that.


20 posted on 08/23/2010 12:31:55 PM PDT by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofreed (<---oops! see?))
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This article completely ignored the greatest impetus to wasteful use of both antibiotics and painkillers: elective plastic surgery.

When someone has had their boobs “redone” for 4 or 5 times, as is not unusual (I think Demi Moore has had several different sizes, for example), or all kinds of other vanity surgeries, they often ahve been given loads of antibiotics to “prevent” or treat infections, along with loads of narcotics for pain.

Also there is loads of antibiotic use associated with follow-on care for tatoos and piercings. It’s not all that uncommon for a person with a tongue piercing to end up taking antibiotics for a year, trying to get an infection under control.

These are some of the kinds of surgeries and procedures that, not only run up healthcare costs, but which are helping to make it impossible for someone to get a life-saving transplant in the future.


23 posted on 08/23/2010 12:37:48 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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There have now been a couple of interesting papers suggesting a Pigouvian tax – which he defines as one levied on an agent causing an environmental problem as an incentive to mitigate that problem – for antibiotics.

Like oil, he points out, antibiotic usefulness is finite. And the cost of drug resistance is not reflected in the price of the drug. "If you consider antibiotic sensitivity as a resource like oil, you want to maintain that by introducing a tax," he says. It would be worldwide and the proceeds could fund new drug development.

But should you tax life-saving drugs, especially in poor countries? "If you don't do anything, there won't be any antibiotics anyway," says James starkly. "At least it is a suggestion of something that could be done."

27 posted on 08/23/2010 12:39:53 PM PDT by frithguild (Joe Wilson was wrong when he shouted "You lie!" Obama doesn't just lie - he lies all the time.)
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Hyperbole?

Yes.

But everybody who wishes should continue to scream, gibber and run around in small circles. The exercise will do them good.

29 posted on 08/23/2010 12:40:23 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (there are huge chunks of time...at night...where I'm just asleep...for hours...it's ridiculous....)
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What ever happened to swine flu?

(Just saying.)


30 posted on 08/23/2010 12:43:12 PM PDT by samtheman
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There are many natural things we can fall back on, I agree, in many cases without anti-biotics many will die, but there is much we know now that we didn’t. And there are very powerful natural anti-biotics, all your ammo might not be as life saving as you think.


39 posted on 08/23/2010 12:52:23 PM PDT by Scythian
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Mechanism Behind Delayed Development Of Antibiotic Resistance Explained
42 posted on 08/23/2010 12:53:08 PM PDT by samtheman
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Big mistake is using anti-biotics as a part of feeding cattle. Big mistake !


49 posted on 08/23/2010 12:58:51 PM PDT by CORedneck
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New Approach Could Lower Antibiotic Requirements By 50 Times

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.

50 posted on 08/23/2010 12:59:52 PM PDT by samtheman
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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!


51 posted on 08/23/2010 1:01:28 PM PDT by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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