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Posted on 08/25/2010 8:46:09 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
Last week, on the very day that the World Health Organisation officially declared the swine flu pandemic over, microbiologists launched a new alert – over multi-drug resistant bacteria. Professor Tim Walsh, co-author of a report in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, strikes the now-familiar note of impending doom: ‘In many ways, this is it. This is potentially the end. There are no antibiotics in the pipeline that have activity against NDM 1-producing Enterobacteriaceae.’ (1)
Here we go again. Only 12 months since the great summer alarum of 2009, when England’s chief medical officer Liam Donaldson raised the spectre of 65,000 deaths from swine flu (the total fell short of 500, far fewer than the annual toll from seasonal flu), we are faced with another nightmare scenario. If the flu doesn’t get us, the New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase 1- positive bacteria spreading among ‘medical tourists’ travelling to India for cosmetic surgery will do instead, ravaging the population back home in Britain in defiance of any existing antibiotic.
Or, more likely, it will not. The spectre of antibiotic-resistant microbes is as old as antibiotics. Over the past decade we have already survived Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis, and highly resistant strains of HIV. The lesson of the swine flu scare is that the public should exercise a degree of scepticism over the doomsday warnings issued by leading figures in microbiology and public health.
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Politicians and scientists keep identifying new epidemics (of social problems such as binge-drinking and internet stalking, as well as of viral infections). Their incessant exhortations to be aware and vigilant and to curb risky behaviours are amplified by the media, fostering public anxieties. The result is a climate responsive to the promotion of a new brand of piety, in which everyone is supposed to worship at the altar of ‘healthy lifestyle choices’.
Sorry SARS already killed me, so did the avian bird flu. Drug resistant super-bug ain’t gonna do it.
They could take a tip from the American Indians, namely, just keep dancing: sooner or later it’s going to rain.
It first surfaced about 18 months ago and it fell off the radar. Now, laking anything else to hyper ventilate about it is back.
BTW what was the total worldwide death toll from N1H1? As near as I can recall it was less than the “normal” flu's death toll.
cough into your elbow.
It’s kind of hard to get a government grant if you’re not pronouncing the end of the world now isn’t it?
Awww, sorry to hear it. We’ll miss you. ;-)
Yes, as with most things, it’s about money and power. If they can keep the sheeple in a state of panic, they are much easier to control.
That bacteria needs a catchier name.
You’re right! It has to have “monster” or “organ-dissolving” or “unstoppable” in the name.
Might be an interesting part-time job... coming up with really scary names for the panic du jour.
I’m feeling much better
Since it comes from New Dehli my suggestion is - “Tiger Plague”
So, a witch had just turned you into a newt, then.
Tiger Plague.
Has a nice ring to it. :-)
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