'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) 296
An anonymous reader quotes UPI:
A Nevada woman in her 70s who'd recently returned from India died in September from a "superbug" infection that resisted all antibiotics, according to a report released Friday... The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "basically reported that there was nothing in our medicine cabinet to treat this lady," report co-author Dr. Randall Todd told the Reno Gazette-Journal. He's director of epidemiology and public health preparedness for the Washoe County Health District, in Reno... CDC testing subsequently revealed the germ was New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase -- a highly resistant form of CRE typically found outside the United States.
India = a bad place for vacations (Score:3, Insightful)
Years ago I knew a girl who was a fellow student in high school.
She took a trip to India and came in contact with some awful pathogen which
proceeded to destroy multiple organs and resulted in her death, despite the
best available medical care in the US.
India is still a filthy third world country, with raw sewage flowing in the streams and rivers.
Given how many good, interesting, and quite safe places there are to travel in the world, you'd
have to wonder why people want to go to a shithole like India.
Re:India = a bad place for vacations (Score:4, Funny)
Have you ever been to Nevada?
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In Nevada, the raw sewage walks upright.
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"India is still a filthy third world country, with raw sewage flowing in the streams and rivers."
Then again if you were born in India, and grow up with your immune system warding off the bugs, you will probably be able to leap tall buildings and shoot webs with your fingertips. Why waste your time giving Americans bad customer service from call centers?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
You're welcome world.
Thanks, shithole country, for killing Ramanujan, who died at age 32.
A 1994 analysis of Ramanujan's medical records and symptoms by Dr. D. A. B. Young concluded that it was much more likely he had hepatic amoebiasis, an illness then widespread in Madras, rather than tuberculosis. He had two episodes of dysentery before he left India. When not properly treated, dysentery can lie dormant for years and lead to hepatic amoebiasis. Amoebiasis was a treatable and often curable disease at the time
Scientists and doctors.. (Score:5, Insightful)
...have been warning us for decades and nobody cared to listen.
Enjoy your new wave of death, humanity.
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Only 7 billion (and counting) more to go.
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>"...have been warning us for decades and nobody cared to listen."
Actually, lots and lots and lots of people listened and acted. But it was not enough and too late. For many years, good physicians have been restricting antibiotic use and there has been a huge educational push telling people they MUST take all their antibiotics, exactly as prescribed. And healthcare facilities have been using all kinds of new techniques to hold down infections and transmission- silver, UV light sterilizers, better clea
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Until we make use of anti-biotics in agriculture an international crime only inherently expensive to produce anti-biotics will last long.
Factory agriculture will run anything cheap into the ground very quickly.
Intensive factory farming (Score:2)
> Until we make use of anti-biotics in agriculture an international crime
You can't have a cheap burger or cheap poultry without antibiotics, so this will not happen.
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Try freaking farmers and greedy shareholder based companies who own them!
They want bigger and better returns each year for their investments which means feed all animals with antibiotic laden feed. When you eat chicken or beef you consume these and create these superbugs.
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Trump is of the opinion that vaccines are involved with autism [archive.is]. I don't think he's going to be doing too much to "big pharma".
Which is odd since he is a known germaphobe [businessinsider.com]. One would think he of all people would be interested in both vaccines and new antibiotics.
Re:Scientists and doctors.. (Score:4, Interesting)
Trump's has spoken up in favor of "spreading out" vaccinations. He hasn't spoken against vaccines in general. Last I checked, there wasn't any data showing that "spreading out" vaccinations either helped or hurt a damned thing. I will point this out- every Republican candidate that was asked about the issue last year basically said the same thing as Trump- so whatever his opinion is, it must play super well with Republicans, and also be considered politically safe (and medically safe, probably) by mainstream candidates like Rubio.
The anti-vax crowd does love Trump, however, and they clearly think he will make some vaccine related statement at some point. Assuming he doesn't, some fraction of that will stick with Trump over their antivax, and some others will stick with their antivax over Trump. The most likely result of Trump's presidency, regarding vaccines, is that there's slightly fewer antivaxxers in a few years, compared to today.
Re:Scientists and doctors.. (Score:5, Informative)
I want people to get vaccinated based off the CDC's recommended timing because their schedule is based on science (epidemiology, virology, immunology, bacteriology, etc.) and not the evidence-free opinion of some random person who has zero training in any relevant field.
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The seizures caused as a result of the vaccine- which appear to be the entire reason for that article- are listed as "These seizures do not cause any long-term health effects." The remainder of the article guesses (a pretty reasonable guess, but still a guess) that more cases of diseases will affect some children because they simply won't have their immunity yet, because they won't have received the vaccine. That article is not a compelling reason to avoid delaying vaccines (nor is it a compelling argumen
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You can also drop the ideological dogma that all product research and development has to be done by private companies. Just set up a public company for this kind of research, and the best option would be to revoke any patents granted on medicaal research not used in actual products if that is standing in the way.
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To be fair, the cheapest test for whether something is viral seems to be to try some antibiotics and see if they do anything. We need better diagnostic tools, with a faster turnaround, if we want to avoid the problem of over-prescribing antibiotics.
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No, the cheapest test for whether something is viral is telling patients to never go to a doctor until after they've been sick for 10-14 days.
Are you nucking futs, Anonymous coward? I'm currently on penicillin treating strep throat. I went to the doc after 2 days with a sore throat. Pus on my tonsils was a bit of a giveaway. If I'd waited 14 days the infection would be in my ears and I'd be battling rheumatic fever...
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The advice that the Anonymous Coward was giving was for upper respiratory infections. In that case, viral infections are generally self limiting and will go away within 10-14 days. If it takes longer than that, you likely have a bacterial infection and it's reasonable for your doctor to treat it with empiric antibiotics. The only exception is if you suspect the flu (body aches, etc) in which case it can b
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and is easily tested for with a quick swab. [...] it can be tested for, quickly, with a swab
Who is doing this swabbing if you don't go to the hospital for 10-14 days?
oops (Score:3)
> a highly resistant form of CRE typically found outside the United States
You mean, WAS typically found outside the USA. How many people did she pass this on to before she took to her bed?
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Probably no one. With a few notable exceptions (bacterial meningitis, TB) most bacterial infections aren't very contagious. You mainly pick them up if you're exposed to a large source of them in the environment (drinking or swimming in contaminated water, poorly cleaned kitchens, cuts, that kind of thing) or if you have an already weakened immune system.
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You mean, WAS typically found outside the USA.
Well, we just need to build a special wall, you see, around America, that will magically keep out the Indian Superbugs.
And we'll make the Indians pay for it! I mean, the Indians have tons of money, that they make with all those casinos in America!
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He's trolling, you fail at ignoring.
Look to history (Score:5, Insightful)
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There's a lot to that. Many infections acquired in hospitals are traceable to unwashed hands, unsanitized surfaces and (of all things), doctors' ties dragging over everything.
Lose the ties, break out the bleach and Lysol, and consider cold plasma hand cleaning stations.
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There are limits to how much energy they can expend on resistance and still hang around in the environment.
They can't afford to be extremophiles just on the odd chance of infecting a human.
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You apparently don't realize that hospital acquired infections are at the lowest point ever. We've lopped off all of the low hanging fruit and are now cruising into the noise. Still useful work to be done, but you have a pretty weird and completely unsupported notion of Ye Olden Tymes.
Nobody has forgotten quarantine - we call it 'isolation' because it's easier to spell. Hospitals are kept quite clean and iodine is a shitty topical antiseptic (alcohol is fine).
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>"Antibiotic-resistant infections can happen anywhere. Data show that most happen in the general community; however, most deaths related to antibiotic resistance happen in inpatient healthcare settings, such as hospitals and nursing homes"
And that is mostly because the people in healthcare settings are already sick and have compromised or weakened immune systems.
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"Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of these infections."
Well, that sucks. Now, how do those numbers compare to historical measurements, accounting for the significant improvement in reporting reliability? The reality [cdc.gov] is that infectious disease rates were about three to five times worse in the 30s and 40s, because we were still at the beginning of a large-scale improvement process in general sanitation throughout daily life, not just hospitals.
"Antibiotic-resistant infections can happen anywhere. Data show that most happen in the general community; however, most deaths related to antibiotic resistance happen in inpatient healthcare settings, such as hospitals and nursing homes"
Let's say that again, simplified: "most deaths occur in care facilities". That's a great talking point, but what about wh
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I see what you did there:
"infectious diseases" != "antibiotic resistant infections"
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iodine is a shitty topical antiseptic (alcohol is fine).
Really? Huh. I'll have to remember that the next time I scrub in with an iodine sponge. I'll let my colleagues know that they don't need to scrub the incision area with an iodine solution, 'cause it doesn't work. And when I get an exposure I'll not bother with the iodine scrub even though it is mandated by my oversight board.
Seriously, iodine is a "shitty" topical antiseptic? Where do these people come from?
Iodine is one of those super antiseptics that, when used properly, kills essentially everything,
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Why is iodine used for those things ("scrub the incision area", etc) instead of alcohol?
Not disagreeing with anything you said, just curious why iodine is chosen over alcohol which I am under the impression will also kill pretty much everything.
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Time to break out the bacteriophages. Fighting infections with tiny space landing craft.
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Re:Look to history (Score:5, Informative)
You, sir or madam, are a lying sack of dangerous shit.
Quote WebMD:
"Home Remedy No-No Number 4: Colloidal Silver
With hype and hope spread by word of mouth and the Internet, colloidal silver is believed by some to help treat a range of infections and diseases.
"People believe that colloidal silver can treat fungal infections, TB, HIV, herpes, and even cancer by boosting the immune system," says Ted Epperly, MD, president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Unfortunately for colloidal sliver supporters, they're wrong, and the consequences of their mistake could be costly.
"One of the most well-known side effects of colloidal silver is that it turns a person's skin a greyish shade of blue," says Epperly.
The skin isn't the only organ affected by colloidal silver; so are the kidneys, stomach, and brain, as well as the nervous system. Silver is actually deposited into the cells of these organs, possibly causing cell damage and death, leading to organ failure.
"The effects of colloidal silver are toxic and cumulative," says Epperly. "Worse, they're irreversible."
Epperly urges people to ignore the hype and instead, talk to a health care provider about the proper way to treat infections and diseases.
http://www.webmd.com/women/features/5-home-remedy-no-nos#3 [webmd.com]
Re:Look to history (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Look to history (Score:4, Informative)
The webMD page you quoted is here:
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-... [webmd.com]
You are being disingenuous because the sentence you quoted is part of a paragraph that advices AGAINST the uses and says that it is NOT EFECTIVE.
Here's the rest of it.
Colloidal silver is a mineral. Despite promoters’ claims, silver has no known function in the body and is not an essential mineral supplement. Colloidal silver products were once available as over-the-counter drug products, but in 1999, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that these colloidal silver products were not considered safe or effective. Colloidal silver products marketed for medical purposes or promoted for unproven uses are now considered “misbranded” under the law without appropriate FDA approval as a new drug. There are currently no FDA-approved over-the-counter or prescription drugs containing silver that are taken by mouth. However, there are still colloidal silver products being sold as homeopathic remedies and dietary supplements.
There are many Internet ads for the parts of a generator that produces colloidal silver at home. People who produce colloidal silver at home will likely not be able to evaluate their product for purity or strength. There are many products that are far safer and more effective than colloidal silver.
Despite these concerns about safety and effectiveness, people still buy colloidal silver as a dietary supplement and use it for a wide range of ailments. Colloidal silver is used to treat infections due to yeast; bacteria (tuberculosis, Lyme disease, bubonic plague, pneumonia, leprosy, gonorrhea, syphilis, scarlet fever, stomach ulcers, cholera); parasites (ringworm, malaria); and viruses (HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, herpes, shingles, warts).
I have to agree with the previous posters assertion that "You, sir or madam, are a lying sack of dangerous shit."
Indiscriminate antibiotic use in farm animals... (Score:5, Interesting)
Industrial meat farmers in the US (and other countries) use literally tons of antibiotics to improve "yields". This leads to resistant strains of bacteria which are passed to humans. Use in chickens and pigs is particularly problematic because of the large amount of antibiotics and the widespread distribution. Most chicken you buy in the store is contaminated with drug resistant bacteria.
Just say no to antibiotic treated animals.
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Bingo. There is almost no point trying to limit excess human use of antibiotics beyond current efforts, when agriculture is using them wildly. In this case, the disease is resistant to antibiotics that are mainly used for agriculture. So the problem is definitely agricultural antibiotics.
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Industrial meat production uses more than 10 times the amount of antibiotics as human use.
Human antibiotic use for the common cold, etc. is a problem but not nearly as bad as farm animal use.
Just like livestock breeding (Score:2)
When people breed animals, they are artificially selecting for their own desired traits. When they use antibiotics, they are in effect selecting for antibiotic resistant strains.
You'd think farmers would get the picture as well or better than others.....
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Re: Indiscriminate antibiotic use in farm animals. (Score:3)
According to this article,
Antibiotics are readily available over the counter at most pharmacies leading to widespread overuse.
He also cited poor public health practices, unsanitary living conditions, and increasing use of antibiotics for growth promotion in poultry as factors that contribute to the diminishing powers of antibiotics in India. With continued use of the drugs or their misuse, bacteria evolve into stronger forms that are resistant to antibiotics.
Re: Indiscriminate antibiotic use in farm animals (Score:2)
Sorry, forgot to add the link to the article
https://thinkprogress.org/indi... [thinkprogress.org]
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28.8 rate of vegetarianism then? I don't think you realize the remainder population in India that consumes meat is therefore about twice the population of the US. Now couple that with the fact that the country is maybe half the size of the US and you can be assured that they are pumping those animals up with anything that will make them grow faster (to make up for lack of grazing space) at rate minimum to that of America's worst offenders.
With that said a bit less than 80% of all antibiotics sold in this c
Re:Indiscriminate antibiotic use in farm animals.. (Score:5, Interesting)
I have to wonder what people think happens on a farm. I grew up on a farm where we had pigs and dairy cattle. We gave the animals antibiotics, but it was rare.
For the pigs we'd give them a shot of antibiotics when we'd get a batch of new pigs in. A pig's life is short, less than a year, and they'd typically get one shot of antibiotics in their life. Pigs cost money, so do antibiotics, so the job of a pig farmer is to balance those costs. Penicillin is cheap but not free. If a pig got sick then it might get another shot. If it got real sick then it got a different kind of shot, as in from a rifle. The carcass of a pig like that could not be sold for meat but the leather was valuable, for a while at least. At some point the rendering truck stopped picking up the dead pigs for free and started to charge for the service, that's when Dad started to just bury them. Any pigs sold for meat are tested for antibiotics. I'm not sure what happened if they tested positive but Dad would make sure that any pig given a shot would not go to market until enough time has passed for the antibiotics to get out of their system.
The dairy cattle would also typically get one shot of antibiotics in their life, when they'd get dehorned. This was because they were at risk of infection at this point until the wound healed over. Any cattle given antibiotics recently were not able to be sold for meat, and they are also tested like the pigs. Any cow given antibiotics while milking had the milk discarded until the antibiotics were out of their system. Milk was also regularly tested for antibiotics. If antibiotics were found in the milk this would mean the milk was discarded. Since the milk of an entire herd was put in the same tank a single cow testing positive would contaminate thousands of gallons of milk. I remember having to do this before, Dad was pissed since that meant not getting money for that milk.
Here's the thing, antibiotics are necessary. I thought it funny too on how much farmers rely on antibiotics if it upset so many people. I saw the value in the Army. When going through in processing I got an antibiotic shot, as did everyone else in the company. It turns out that when you put a lot of living and breathing beings in an enclosed space, be they recruits in a barracks or pigs in a shed, they tend to get sick. I still ended up getting a pretty nasty lung infection while in the Army, they gave me a potent antibiotic that made me sensitive to the sun. I got the worst sunburn in my life then.
Just say no to antibiotic treated animals.
If you don't like it then go ahead and buy your "organic" meat or go vegan. I know what farmers do to get animals to market and if these animals weren't treated for infections then meat gets real expensive due to losses. Quality would go down too because healthy animals make tasty meat. Since so many people in this world seem able to eat this meat and live well I'm trying to figure out what the problem is exactly.
here's why (Score:2)
Colistin for your animal feed.
https://www.alibaba.com/produc... [alibaba.com]
Time to get serious (Score:5, Insightful)
The reality is that most resistant strains of bacteria originate from antibiotics abuse, and the biggest abusers of antibiotics are third world countries and those who raise livestock. Normal un-resistant bacteria are actually more healthy vital and will grow and displace resistant strains because resistant strains are typically resistant due to the fact that they are missing receptors or features that antibiotics use to kill the bacteria. Those same features allow normal bacteria to be stronger and multiply faster than the resistant strains.
What the doctors and scientists are only recently realizing is that the way to deal with resistant strains is that we must crack down on antibiotics abuse in these two areas globally, and greatly step up and enforce the use of post-antibiotic use of un-resistant probiotics, replenishing the healthy, easy to kill bacteria in people and farm animals which then come out in their waste/manure/fertilizer or sometimes on the meat/eggs/milk etc. and spread from there.
I recall reading about a river in India where a pharmaceutical had been illegally dumping waste antibiotics and something like 90% of all bacteria tested in the river were resistant. The solution, after stopping the pollution, should have been to seed the river with a continuous stream of healthy un-resistant bacteria, and over time (maybe a year) the healthy, un-resistant bacteria would supplant the resistant strains 99% of the time, greatly reducing the odds of exposure to a resistant strain. We are just now discovering that regular old soil bacteria have over 40 different methods of killing off resistant bacteria that are completely new to us. We can and will convert some into new antibiotics, but we must learn from the past and minimize the spread of resistant strains of bacteria now by spreading as much as possible the un-resistant strains which will in turn supplant the resistant strains we have fostered around the globe with minimal additional human intervention.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?... [the-scientist.com]
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Inaccurate article details... (Score:5, Informative)
CDC testing subsequently revealed the germ was New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase -- a highly resistant form of CRE
It should at least read "revealed the germ CONTAINED New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase". NDM-1 is not a bacteria, it's an enzyme possessed by resistant bacteria that inactivates antibiotics.
What's really fun is that this gene can potentially be transferred to other types of bacteria laterally...
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CDC testing subsequently revealed the germ was New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase -- a highly resistant form of CRE
It should at least read "revealed the germ CONTAINED New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase". NDM-1 is not a bacteria, it's an enzyme possessed by resistant bacteria that inactivates antibiotics.
What's really fun is that this gene can potentially be transferred to other types of bacteria laterally...
I love the way bacteria, and other organisms can exchange genes laterally. It means evolution doesn't follow a nice straightforward tree structure; its a graph, with cycles, possibly not even directional (ie gene exchanges can go both ways). That makes things a lot more interesting.
Harvard Medical (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Harvard Medical (Score:4, Interesting)
The problem here is that eventually bacteria always find a way to evade antibiotics with low enough metabolic cost.
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don't be too quick to judge (Score:2)
yes India has terrible controls on their antibiotic use, but remember that US farmers are using large amounts of antibiotics too keep their overcrowded livestock from dying too soon.
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So does India
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yes India has terrible controls on their antibiotic use, but remember that US farmers are using large amounts of antibiotics too keep their overcrowded livestock from dying too soon.
India is a country with a median annual income of $616. With 1.2 billion people, well, a lot of things like providing medical care are going to be tough. We're headed that way too. While per capita GDP growth has recovered from the Great Recession, median income has declined.
The Georgans have a technology (Score:3)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Never got popular because it's harder than a pill and so no one puts the effort in to get it past the FDA
Re:The Georgans have a technology (Score:4, Interesting)
"In Russia, mixed phage preparations may have a therapeutic efficacy of 50%. This equates to the complete cure of 50 of 100 patients with terminal antibiotic-resistant infection. The rate of only 50% is likely to be due to individual choices in admixtures and ineffective diagnosis of the causative agent of infection."
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People in India are mostly hindoes, not Muslims. Most muslims went to Pakistan after the former Brittish India became independent and hostilities broke out between hindos and muslims.
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There's approximately 138 million Muslims in India. Yes, most Muslims left for East or West Pakistan at the time. East Pakistan is now Bangladesh.
So, while yes, most Indians are Hindus, 138 million Muslims is still 10% of the pop. of India.
Please try to keep up to date.
Re:Indians: if their food doesn't kill you, their (Score:5, Funny)
His first language is Floridian.
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Indians are mostly Hindu, not Muslim.
I'm sure the distinction is lost on most Trump supporters.
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Most distinctions are lost on Trump supporters.
It's how they roll.
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FYI, everybody hates everybody else.
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> Just FYI, Indians hate Muslims.
Who doesn't? Even muslims hate muslims (sunni vs. shia).
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"Just FYI, Indians hate Muslims."
That's not possible. Only white people can be racist. Everyone else on the world exhales fairy dust.
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Just an FYI, many Indians ARE Muslims.
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The U.S's continuing failure to provide affordable healthcare to a growing portion of it's population will turn our cities into breeding grounds for all manner of new and exciting infectious bacteria.
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This sounds like great idea for a new reality TV show. Needs a catchy name and some attractive-but-down-on-their-luck actors.
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The U.S's continuing failure to provide affordable healthcare to a growing portion of it's population will turn our cities into breeding grounds for all manner of new and exciting infectious bacteria.
If "affordable" healthcare includes distributing antibiotics like tic-tacs to people whenever they whine about an infection, maybe we are avoiding the creation of new and exciting infectious bacteria by continuing to fail to provide access to anti-biotics...
Just food for thought...
OF course there are other aspects of failure to provide care to the population that causes serious health problems and increased mortality rates and we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bath water, but anti-biotic overuse is a
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I didn't say incompetent health care, I said affordable. For example, when people really do need a course of antibiotics, they should be able to afford the full course to make sure the bugs are dead. They certainly should not save half so the next time they don't have to scrape up money for a doctor and crazy expensive prescription. They certainly shouldn't have to tough it out and spread the infection while they pray that their immune system will eventually win.
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The U.S's continuing failure to provide affordable healthcare to a growing portion of it's population will turn our cities into breeding grounds for all manner of new and exciting infectious bacteria.
If "affordable" healthcare includes distributing antibiotics like tic-tacs to people whenever they whine about an infection, maybe we are avoiding the creation of new and exciting infectious bacteria by continuing to fail to provide access to anti-biotics...
It doesn't. It means access to the same health care providers that those insured through their workplace get.
And in any case, save your ACA-bashing for a week or two, which is when the widespread FUD attacks like yours will really come pouring out.
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Is there anything that can cure an outbreak of apostropheum excessiva?
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As I understand it, it is mostly symptom less. Those who are bothered are generally advised to take chill pills as needed.
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Surely chill pills are subject to the war on drugs? (And the Mexicans are already paying for them).
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I'll happily bash the current government with little provocation, but - practices such as drilling proper sanitation procedures into doctors' heads (wear disposable gloves, wash hands between patients) and repeatedly telling patients to take ALL of their antibiotics, even if they already feel better, have very little to do with government rules and regulations.
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Stay out of Nevada, too.
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Re:Welcome to India (Score:5, Funny)
Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in a cactus.
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In other words, it's a clickbait article (but then, any article decrying the end of the world tends to be).
Having RTFA (and some others, apparently), the bacteria in question is resistant the 26 antibiotics on the US shortlist of approved antibiotics (read that again, and think about what that means). Posthumously, they found that this strain is probably susceptible to fosfomycin (http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/nevada-woman-died-near-ultimate-superbug-n706641).
What more, there are more than 26 an
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*Edit: crying, not decrying. Except on Tuesdays.
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*Sigh*. If you read the article from the link provided, you would find that we have fosfomycin in the US, it's just not on the short list of approved antibiotics; it is, however, approved for some form of cysts...and its usage here would simply be an off-label usage. In other countries, it seems, it is on their short list of approved antibiotics.
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Of course, if you had bothered to RTFA, you would have noticed that the antibiotic resistance element in question most likely came from a pig who was fed the drug in it's feed. So you missed the entire point of TFA. It's not even a drug typically used in humans. It's a last ditch drug because of side effects.
Apparently deaf pigs with renal failure aren't a big issue.
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From what I've read, it's not so much little Johnny and his sniffles as it is the meat and poultry he eats. Our livestock, particularly the factory-farm variety, get antibiotics routinely.
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While I don't disagree the simple fact is all the really nasty diseases are coming from outside areas where antibiotics are abused.
This isn't Europe or Canada these diseases are coming from India and Africa where antibiotics are harder to get and more expensive. Places where they don't use anti bacterial soap on every hand washing.
Evolution is breeding these germs in places they can be bred
Re: Think of it as evolution in action. (Score:5, Informative)
Kidney stones
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The problem is the 26 antibiotics all work the same way. Given that the gene in question encodes an enzyme which blocks that process, you don't have to administer all 26 to know that none of them will work.
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Whatever, evolution is a lie. God made new kinds of viruses to punish the non beliebers.
You know, even if there weren't real people who actually think this way this comment still wouldn't be funny.
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I find it comical, none of us have found the right god yet, and I don't believe we are getting any closer.
Further, the person is probably a polytheist in the ilk of ancient Roman's or Greek's. He just meant "Gods", so it was a typo...
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It also shows why Zika got a cure toot sweet in the west: the wealthy bastards didn't want to see themselves dead.
There's more to it than that. If the laboratory and the researchers are far away from the disease you can hardly expect a viable cure to be developed quickly. There's only so much you can do with a field laboratory.
Of course, DDT hasn't been BANNED banned, just the idiotic use for widespread copspraying has been banned, which it had never been authorised for in the first place, though that didn'
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