Posted on 06/02/2025 6:04:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
It's a grim paradox, doctors say.
On the one hand, antibiotics are being overused until they no longer work, driving resistance and fuelling the rise of deadly superbugs. On the other hand, people are dying because they can't access these life-saving drugs.
A new study by the non-profit Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) looked at access to antibiotics for nearly 1.5 million cases of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative (CRGN) infections across eight major low- and middle-income countries, including India, Brazil and South Africa. CRGN bacteria are superbugs resistant to last-line antibiotics - yet only 6.9% of patients received appropriate treatment in the countries studied.
India bore the lion's share of CRGN infections and treatment efforts, procuring 80% of the full courses of studied antibiotics but managing to treat only 7.8% of its estimated cases, the study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal reports. (A full drug course of antibiotics refers to the complete set of doses that a patient needs to take over a specific period to fully treat an infection.)
Common in water, food, the environment and the human gut, Gram-negative bacteria cause infections such as urinary tract infections (UTIs), pneumonia and food poisoning.
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With jet travel and indifferent immigration these antibiotic resistant germs will be in America soon enough. Set loose the four horseman and let the apocalypse begin.
My bet is these “superbugs” were created in a lab to create demand for “supervaccines.”
Propaganda and blackmail. Nice folks we’re dealing with here.
And we pay them to make our drugs?
The medical community brought this whole problem on by itself with their casual, indiscriminate use of antibiotics for so long.
And it’s not like there weren’t people warning about this, but most of it came from the natural health community which the mainstream medical community looks down on as nothing more than a bunch of witch doctors.
Except for the inconvenient fact that they’ve been right far more often than not about health and the indiscriminate use of pharmaceuticals.
Considering what we've experienced the last several years, it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
The depths of evil men are willing to sink to in order to gain power and money is mind blowing.
Crap. The majority of the world’s manufacture of antibiotics takes place in India.
Wash your pills before using????
The term “superbug” is a lie. Typically antibiotic-resistant organisms are degenerate mutants that by some fluke of their degeneration are protected from the antibiotic. It’s been many years since I read up on it, but as an example there are molecular gateways in cells that are used to bring certain types of nutrients in. One antibiotic might use such a gateway to access the bacteria to destroy it; a mutation that destroys the gateway thus protects the organism from being killed by the antibiotic. Assuming the cell can synthesize what it needs the loss of the gateway is not fatal, and is helpful in the immediate context of fighting off the antibiotic. But it’s not a superbug. It’s a cripple. I read of a number of such examples, and no cases of a bacteria magically gaining antibiotic resistance through some sort of gain of function.
One other point - the reason we can safely conclude these superbugs are cripples and not superior pathogens is that they tend to exist solely in environments where antibiotics are being used with some frequency, eliminating their competition. But they are not spreading across the landscape. That is, natural selection is not favoring them in the general environment as it should be if they were really an overall improvement. That’s why despite decades of fearmongering about “superbugs” running wild they remain a niche concern in areas where antibiotics create specialized selection factors.
Geee. A country that makes antibiotics, and distributes them for free suddenly notices antibiotic-resistant bugs.
Who’d a thunk?
I’ve long seen India as an unsanitary country. There are lots of videos showing people defecating anywhere and everywhere. The people of India must have a robust immune system considering their conditions. Outside of India those pathogens could cause trouble if they’re easily spread.
I read once, in an old medical book, where before antibiotics they would administer poison “enough to kill the disease but not the patient”.
I very rarely finish a course of antibiotics. When it is obvious I am better, I stop taking the prescription. My logic being I don’t want to kill off all the bacteria in my system as most of it does resist foreign bacteria. If I destroy my friendly bacteria that clears the way for stronger alien (for lack of a better word) to gain a foothold.
Demanding a full course of antibiotics be taken no matter what is a salt the earth approach.
Fake article. Trump wasn’t blamed.
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