Posted on 10/26/2013 10:13:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A high-ranking official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared in an interview with PBS that the age of antibiotics has come to an end. 'For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about "The end of antibiotics, question mark?"' said Dr Arjun Srinivasan. 'Well, now I would say you can change the title to "The end of antibiotics, period.”' The associate director of the CDC sat down with Frontline over the summer for a lengthy interview about the growing problem of antibacterial resistance. Srinivasan, who is also featured in a Frontline report called 'Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria,' which aired Tuesday, said that both humans and livestock have been overmedicated to such a degree that bacteria are now resistant to antibiotics.
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Sorry I didn’t read your post before I posted. I am glad to be in good company.
Are you sure? You can buy most any med OTC in Mexico. In the US, you can get most common *old school* antibiotics in a feed store. Farmers keep large stocks of common injectables and oral antibiotics around for their livestock. Meat animals around the world are fed these drugs.
Old school diseases that have become resistant are commonly reported. My personal experience was of getting a lower respiratory infection while traveling in the South Pacific. I was in remote areas and had to wait for the Flying Doctor.
I received 150 mg of erythromycin plus a tiny steroid tablet
to be taken over a 10 day period. It was not strong enough.
I arrived back home quite ill and my US doctor prescribed some huge flouroquinolone that gave results within days, but which had to be taken for three weeks. I had some side effects and secondary effects that lasted months. No idea what I picked up, but no one in the islands was the least bit worried, while my MD was. Was it *old school*? Mutated? A poor prescription? That was 13 years ago. Could I rely on a quinolone again if this occurred?
Do you have links to back up your assertions? Just so we can all stop worrying?
That, right there, is an argument that we are over-medicated . . . not that Mexicans are magically doing this to ourselves.
I can add Oregano Oil, Garlic Oil, and Clove Oil to the arsenal you mentioned.
I was sick for years with recurring bronchial, sinus and typically developing to pneumonia. This would happen annually with a trip to the doctor, a dose of some kind of ever stronger antibiotic.
Then I cured myself and broke the cycle. The modern antibiotics seem to destroy everything in the body, yet cannot break up a slimy biomass in sinus, lungs or wherever. So the infection gets knocked down, but left to fester until the body gets tired, then to return.
Sambucol, Grapefruit Seed extract are wonderful. tea Tree oil, oregano oil and clove oil are great for brushing the teeth. Just a few drops on the toothbrush, then add toothpaste as usual.
I saw a study of nursing home residents with pneumonia, and they could match the cultures with plaque. So keeping the teeth clean is key.
I have not been sick since 2001 after being sick every year for the first 30 years of my life.
I still remember my boss in the nineties telling me CDs would never replace the record album.
BS. The vast majority of the time they still work just fine.
The guy here predicts disaster for humans, making this thread of interest to preppers. If a plague does occur, two things will happen.
Natural selection, which breeds resistant strains when antibiotics are over used, will insure that susceptible strains, expending fewer resources to maintain the resistance, will quickly outbreed and thereby displace the resistant strains, and the antibiotics will again become more generally effective.
A plague would also favor those in better health - those who have kept their bodies and immune systems in good shape through proper supplies of food, vitamins and clean water, i.e. preppers. Those who survive will also be selected for more competent inherent immune systems, which will be passed on to future generations.
If this man’s dire predictions come true, it may get ugly, but balance will be restored, and more especially for those prepared.
The good news, this will discourage deviancy and debauchery, since there will be no cure for the new generation of STDs
I don't care about organic, I just want it to be "real" food.
I haven't been sick in the last couple years.
Should we believe them this time?
No problem - it’s worth repeating, like ... “You can keep your doctor.”
I believe the poster was claiming that the Mexicans come in with infectious disease. If they had also been consuming available antibiotics while ill in Mexico, couldn’t they be bringing in mutated bacterial infections? Just being prescribed ineffective meds could breed resistance.
I know not all disease remains infectious over a long period of time. I’m not blaming Mexicans, as I live in an area with very few illegals. The farm workers I know of are hired through a rigorous program that includes health evaluations and checks on both sides of the border, much at the employers’ expense. But it obviously is different in border areas.
I didn’t even touch on the drugs that enter municipal water systems. There are a lot of ways uncontrolled immigration can spread resistant illness.
““It seems as if we may also be forced to conclude that the supposed
connexion between magnetic storms and sun-spots is unreal, and that the
seeming agreement between periods has been a mere coincidence.”
— Lord Kelvin, 1892
“X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”
— Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895
“Radio has no future.”
— Lord Kelvin
“Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.”
— Lord Kelvin”
Man, that Lord Kelvin had a nose for history and scientific development. If alive today I’m sure he’d say of the internet “It’s only a mild distraction. There is no way people will substitute going out and seeing the world for simply bringing the world to them” and of digital technology “Sure, it may be the best way of transmitting information efficiently ever designed but who needs that much info that fast and in so many different places? Waste of resources.”
Bactrim kills MRSA.
MSRA is a different animal, altogether. And the fact that we are dealing with it here should be an indication that it was born here.
I wasn’t implying such. I’m saying that they brought diseases into our country that were eradicated that need more and more antibiotics. Geez!
Antibiotics was always a footrace in the wrong direction. It killed the weaker critters and left the stronger ones to wreak havoc.
Raw Honey has been known to defeat a MRSA infection.
Yes, you need a prescription but many mommies won’t take no for an answer when little Johnny gets the sniffles, and the doctor would prefer him getting well with bed rest and healthy eating habits.
Believe me, this is a problem. I’ve known mothers who kept their kids on antibiotics for a significant portion of the time. They thought they were being the best most attentive parent possible.
What they were doing is setting up a situation where normal antibiotics wouldn’t work against infections their kids would come up with later in life.
Debunked !
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