Posted on 03/06/2013 5:55:51 PM PST by oxcart
Hospitals need to take action against the spread of a deadly, antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bacteria kill up to half of patients who are infected.
The bacteria, called carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae or CRE, have increased over the past decade and grown resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics, according to the CDC. In the first half of 2012, 200 health care facilities treated patients infected with CRE.
"CRE are nightmare bacteria," CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden said in a statement. "Our strongest antibiotics don't work and patients are left with potentially untreatable infections. Doctors, hospital leaders and public health must work together now to implement CDC's 'detect and protect' strategy and stop these infections from spreading."
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Papa Obama told me bad things like this would happen if that sequester thingy went through. He’s right, just like I knew he’d be.
Are you all ashamed of yourselves for doubting him?
Well 10k iu units of Vitamin D for those in cold and dark climates can’t hurt either!
“Don’t Dead Open Inside”???
“Hell The What??”
When folks lived on the farm and raised their own meat, hams were cured with sugar, salt, no nitrates nor silicone. RegulatorCountry is talking about homegrown natural stuff - not store bought toxic meats.
AND... they are supposed to 'get sick'. This is how they develop a stronger immune system. There are a laundry list of 'childhood diseases' that every child is expected to catch at least once.
We (unwisely) use medicine to stop a 'runny nose', when the only thing we should be doing is blowing our nose. It's running for a reason, and stopping it with antihistamines leaves the nasal passages susceptible to damage.
I brought it up more or less just to illustrate the antibacterial properties of sugar. It didn’t enter my mind that everybody didn’t grow up with grandparents who had a smokehouse on their farm and cured their own meats. Maybe it wasn’t the greatest example for that reason, but you certainly can prevent meat from spoiling and decaying for years with either salt or sugar. They are preservative because they’re antibacterial.
Exactly.
Actually, vitamins will do more to protect you from disease than washing your hands.
pain meds, even the OTC ones work the first time I take them but then it takes more and more and in a few days they do nothing and I feel like you know what. So I just ignore the pain and solder on. Not being brave, just resigned. I do take some hormone stuff and a very mild sleep aid. The rest is dreck.
Ozone.
Yeah, not when you are asleep, anyway.
How about when you are awake ?
Maybe that’s what they gassed the high school gym locker room with, where my former business partner’s son was on the wrestling team and several came down with MRSA? I never knew, I just saw what looked like workers in hazmat suits and they sort of tented it off for several hours. Good old chlorine bleach would probably do the trick too.
Banning hospitals, doctor's offices, and nursing homes would be the democrat way!
Those going to work would be excluded from the ban. There are a LOT of democrat voters and a commander in chief depending on their tax dollars.
Maybe it’s different for you but on two occasions, once with a radial fracture of the radius almost at my elbow, and once with a bout of shingles, I was prescribed hydrocodone. Wonderful stuff, didn’t feel buzzed, loopy or weird at all and the pain was just ... gone. Apparently it’s prescribed sparingly because they’re concerned about the potential for addiction. It worked for me, though. I just felt normal but without the pain.
We have always tried to eradicate them. They have always tried to 'infect' us, or 'consume' us.
It's a back and forth struggle.
We kill cows by the billions, but they are still around. So I doubt that they will be able to 'infect' everyone, and I have no doubt that we will come up with some kind of 'treatment' that will work.
I don't think that bacteria intend to eradicate humans. I think it's their job to force our lifeform to adapt and evolve.
And yet, we keep electing them to high office.
If we were to use the same logic that liberals suggest we use to fight gun crimes to fight this infectious bacteria we would out law hospitals.
Well, I for one don’t look forward to a return of plagues and quarantines, but I guess it’s a matter of perspective. We’re just food or a place to reproduce for bacteria. Some are lethal. Most aren’t. So, have a heart, think of the poor microbes, they’re just trying to get ahead.
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