"Hello, CDC? Let 'er rip!"
Posted on 02/27/2013 4:58:19 PM PST by Doogle
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is alerting clinicians of an emerging untreatable multidrug-resistant organism in the United States.
There are many forms of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), but of the 37 forms reported in the U.S., 15 have been reported in less than a year.
The CDC said the increase in CRE means health care providers need to “act aggressively to prevent the emergence and spread of these unusual CRE organisms.”
Enterobacteriaceae lives in water, soil and the human gut. These “surperbugs” have developed high levels of resistance to antibiotics – even carbapanems. Individuals who usually develop CRE infections are those who are taking antibiotics and getting significant medical treatment for other conditions.
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ping
every year...
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...
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OH NOOOOOOO! Not a Superbug! Next week, thanks to Republicans and Bob Woodward, all doctors will be sent home because Obama says so! There will be no doctors! And the border will be overrun with Superbug carrying migrants selling hemorrhagic deer meat!!! We are all gonna die!
superbug, mutation is thy name
can i well be addled?
Liberalism=superbug
You can both be addled and put on the ping list...
theres a difference?
One is a subset of the other.
interchangeably?
Let’s just say there’s some overlap.
If I tell you I’m looking down on that statement it just means I understand.
We’s got us a fresh crisis laid at our feet by Prezident Camacho Ogumbo. Just about time for the Obama Free Sh*t Army to break out that newly purchased ammo.
4th of July, dude, 4th of July...
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