Antibiotic Resistant Staph Infections

LinuxGeek8 writes "There's a news update on a previous article about the first case of antibiotic resistant staph infections. The woman who has the infection is being kept up to 6 months in an isolation room. She is taking an antibiotic that is working, after many others did not. "In the scheme of public health threats, this has to rank close to the top," David Ropeik, director of risk communication at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, said of antibiotic resistance."

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Well that sucks..

[xchino]

but at least it's not antibiotic resistant west nile.

Re:And this is

[LineNoiz]

No. This is the result of people "self-medicating". When a doctor prescribes medication for 6 weeks, if you feel better after 4 weeks, there are still bacteria in your system. The next two weeks work on killing them. If you don't kill all of them, the stronger ones that survived will evolve to be immune to the medication (gross oversimplification). When they spread to someone else, who also doesn't finish the course of meds, they will become more medication-resistant. And this is the reason we have drug-resistant bacteria.

It's all a lie! We are getting anti-biotic resistant bacteria because the drug companies (read: pill pushers) tell the doctors what to prescribe for various illnesses. Then they turn around and tell everyone that when you feel better you're still sick, so you better keep taking those pills. Meanwhile, they are busy in their secret labs off the Florida Keys genetically engineering new strains of "resistant" bacteria, while simultaniously reducing the amount of "medicine" in the "medicine" they currently produce. All this in an attempt to get you sicker so that you have to keep buying pills. That is the reason we have drug-resistant bacteria, and I know it is because I just made it up as I typed.

Think about this: If I get shot in the arm, but don't die from it, then have three childeren who all get shot and live, and they have childeren that all get shot and live, and so on for a few hundred generations, does that mean eventually my familial line will produce bullet-resistant childeren? Only if the bullets get weaker...

Good example of creationist damage

[Phil Karn]

The development of antibiotic resistance by bacteria is one of the most important examples of evolution in action. Yet when so many people deny the reality of evolution because of religious superstitions, how can they be made to understand the dangers of antibiotic overuse?

Re:It helps to read the article

[Lumpy]

thank you for being an obvious bigot... it's nice that you discredit yourself righot off the bat by spewing filth first...

These strains are NOT changing due to the use of antibiotics they are changing due to the fact they usually DO swap dna from other strains and even different altogether Bacteria. it's not a mutation it's NORMAL OPERATION of the pathogen you idiot.

so quit trying to be an armchair scientist, go actually read something about it that is accurate and not propaganda published by another group of clueless zealots.. I'm talking textbooks that you would use to get your degree in miocrobiology.. (I'll even lend you mine!) And the petri dish is NOT the same as a human host, you are right... a petri dish is far more hospitable... you dont have any body defenses also working on the problem, you have a controlled environment that is perfect for your target pathogen, and you can limit doaseages to minute levels instead of having the normal massive dose and then trickle dose coupled with body temperature fluctuations, the addition of alcahol to the bloodstream, other pathogens that out populate the target pathogen, etc....

Thye body DOES get you to the target pathogen is removed state... and a proper perscription will get you to that point at the end of a medication... 99% of all antibiotic is over perscribed by a term of 2 weeks on the average.

and finally your comment about how we wiped out the indians with our european pathogens... they were KILLED by airborne and waterborne pathogens.. airborne Virii and the fact that europeans settlers were too stupid to not crap and piss in their water sources.. (something that chlorinating the drinking water would have solved.. but they didnt have that back then) e-coli... a standard nice bug that is inside all of us is lethal to an aids patient or anyone with a reduced immune system WHEN it enters the body and is not a part of the digestive system. But mopst of what killed the tribes here in the states were virii like smallpox and the other scourges that we happily brought with us. Virii and bacteria are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

Please, when you have something other than opinion, please bring it back.. I'd be glad to hear it if you can calm down and act like an adult instead of a screaming spoiled brat.