[soycd]

>and had recently been hospitalized in India with fractured leg bones

There you go. Keep that 3rd world crap out of the civilized areas.

[mad_as_he$$]

She got the infection undergoing a medical procedure in India.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

INFECTIOUS DISEASE PING !

Superbug bacterium with medication resistance causes a fatality (Sepsis)
Only known medication not yet approved in the U.S.

[Steely Tom]

Bacteria have rights too!

[2banana]

Open borders can lead to these kind of things...

A reason why in the day of Ellis Island about 10% were sent back home...

[dfwgator]

This is some scary s—t, right here.

[jch10]

They won’t be happy until half of the US has some crap like this!

[katana]

Talked to a lady visiting with people at an assisted living home, wearing a surgical mask, yesterday. Bronchitis for seven weeks, antibiotics aren’t helping. Bacteria are alive too and nature gives them a survival strategy a lot like ours. The survivors of whatever came along to kill a bunch of us pass along the who’s-it that made such survival possible.

[Secret Agent Man]

Of course our glorious and ever omniscient benevolent government rejects certain meds that are useful in treating certain diseases.

ANd also poo-poohs the use of some non-fda approved substances that do well against infections and viruses because they are not drugs, so therefore by fda definition cannot cure disease.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Bacterium Lives Matter!!!

[SkyDancer]

India, okay. That settles it.

[Vendome]

carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE),
which is resistant to all antibiotics available in the United States.(Emphasis mine)

Maybe the humane thing would have been to have her treated with drugs from Europe,which would have helped her

[yarddog]

Around 1985 my Daughter had a really bad sinus infection. The Dr. gave her Erythromycin but after a few days she was worse. He then added Cephalexin. After a couple more days she was not getting better so we took her to the emergency room.

The Dr. there did a throat culture and prescribed Penicillin. That did the trick. After maybe 3 more days she was completely well.

[dadfly]

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[proud American in Canada]

This will become a huge problem. We are going to return to the old days.

My father had MRSA; I washed my hands constantly when I visited him a few times this spring before he died.

He abused antibiotics; he was a lawyer and called up a doctor friend of his for ABs every time he got a cold (!) and stopped taking them when he felt better. Absolutely the wrong things to do.

[P.O.E.]

American woman, stay away from me-ee.

[TChad]

Does Big Pharma have sufficient financial incentive to develop new antibiotics?

If not, that might be worth adding to Trump's To Do list.

[greeneyes]

It was unclear how the bacteria acquired resistance.
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That’s just how the body works. To illustrate, let’s talk about pain killers. As people take these pills, their body adapts and they develop a tolerance, so that Higher doses are needed.

It works the same way for antibiotics, tolerance (resistance) develops as the organism adapts. In some cases, old time remedies from past centuries have been effective.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I believe the solution will not be new, more powerful antibiotics.

I think bacteriophages hold the key.

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

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...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.