[Fruitbat]

So...simple antibiotics is all that is needed for treatment/cure?

Apparently. Interesting, eh.

We always heard that salmanella was deadly. Well my 18 mo. old son got it a few years back and all they did was prescribe antibiotics. No biggie. It was nothing more than a prolonged stomach bug. I don't get the hype sometimes.

[Nathan Zachary]

Salmonella can be deadly. It's actually quite common. Most people get a little sick and shake it off in a day or so. They don't even realize they've had it. There were some studies done a while back. Not suprizing, it was found to be worst in California, in Mexican fast food joints.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no6/cummings.htm

There are many more if you look for them.

[ran15]

We always heard that salmanella was deadly. Well my 18 mo. old son got it a few years back and all they did was prescribe antibiotics. No biggie. It was nothing more than a prolonged stomach bug. I don't get the hype sometimes.

Its incredible how effective anti-biotics are. The hype is definately the media and governments doing I believe.

As an example on global warming, I heard a climate scientist who seemed very rational.. say that human carbon emissions will likely raise the average temperature .2 degrees higher then it would have been without those emissions. Over the course of the next 200 years.

Something to think about. But not something that makes you tune into the evening news. Or accept a dramatic loss of freedom to make way for a broad government intervention in our lives for the 'greater good'.

The same goes for public health, and the hype for things like Avian Flu.