Posted on 09/30/2004 3:06:21 PM PDT by neverdem
I was not aware of that.
I certainly agree with you regarding the misuse of antibiotics. Scientists have been warning about this for some time. Seems their worst fears are materializing.
Vancomycin was a last ditch drug, and apparently it's not working on some newer strains of staph.
It's illegal immigrants and too many 3rd world immigrants that are bringing in nasty stuff they have adapted to but we haven't, the Indian-smallpox effect. We used to quarantine immigrants to prevent this stuff. Could also be some of Saddam's handiwork too.
Hey...I represent that.
Sorry.
LauraJean, you are right! When people started being so sterilized with antibacterial soaps and cleaners, the bacteria just got resistant and people got weaker. Also, antibacterial soaps can suppress the thyroid.
Is it possible that new horrors like this originated and/or are spread by all the foreigners flooding in from everywhere else and establishing foreign enclaves in our society?
Multiculturalism anyone?
"... then saw 459 in 2003, with 90 percent in healthy children. "
The first thing that comes to mind is the possiblity that the children are in daycare facilities that routinely wipe surfaces down with anti-bacterial cleaning solutions.
Then inevitably some bacteria survive and get stronger over time. They then carry these bacteria back to homes, playgrounds, schools, etc.
Did you read this?
"Did you read this?"
UH, I hope so. I thought I posted it.
Tijuana tetracycline.
Tetracycline didn't cause resistance by Staph to the whole class of penicillins. Bacteria sensitive to penicillins acquire the gene to produce penicillinase or beta-lactamase. Here's a complete article on antibacterial resistance. I haven't read it. I'll take a look at it.
Obviously, I was making a more general statement referring to the over-use of easily obtainable and poorly monitored antibiotics in Mexico to breed tetracycline resistant strains that were then carried in by illegals to emergency rooms in America thence to breed into yet more virulent strains, the scariest one being vancomycin resistant staph.
err.....not that simple...
MRSA can be found in your blood, your urine, your wounds or your lungs....
no one is quite sure how it passes....
but,I surmiss, that it is an opportunistic disease that most of us already have in us or on us....
young footballers have been known to get it, and they had nothing to do with hospitals...
Opportunistic infections are infections that happen to individuals with incompetent or damged immune systems such as HIV/AIDS, diabetes, cancer chemotherapy, inherited immune deficiencies and chronic alcoholism. Folks with competent immune systems are not susceptible to them. These Staph bacteria developed resistance to the whole class of penicillin (antibacterial) antibiotics.
LOL
Leave it to me to mess up a post, should have taken your
name off the header........
It is a good article and I thank you for posting it, never
had any doubt that you had read it.
I had told Alabama Mom about the disease, last week and wanted to be sure that she saw the article.
It is a disease that was going around the world, maybe 3 or 4 months ago, in several countries, Canada was one of them.
bttt
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