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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."
thanks for making me use all that anti-bacterial soap all the time. now i'm locked up in a room for 6 months.
as usual. Decimal to binary conversion errors in antibiotic design on computers caused this.
Watch, it'll become immune to radiation. Now THAT's a scary bug.
Education is the silver bullet.
to quit washing your hands! the more bacteria resistant YOU are, the less you have to rely on artificial crutches like antibiotics.
Will it play Ogg Vorbis?
Luckily, i take my cipro once a week, so this shouldnt bother me.
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And my high school collegeues made fun of my lack of social life. Ha!
Could the indigenous bacteria sue for intellectual property theft?
What if a bacterium steals patented DNA? Do the pharmaceutical companies have a case against it?
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
Oh great, ANOTHER reason why I picked the wrong day to start using heroin.
How are they gonna explain this in classrooms in Alabama? (or wherever the heck it is that evolution is banned in classrooms)
"Well kids you see God just recently gave the staph bacteria a gracious gift; antibiotic resistance. Of course staph didn't *evolve* this resistance since theres no such thing as evolution, children.
We just have to wonder at Gods great plan where he makes these changes in living things just to make life harder for us God fearing folk. Praise the lord.
Ok now children all lne up for your lobotomy operations; you won't be needing independent thought with God looking after things."
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
you have never met teh bacteria and mildew in my bathroom. THe view soap as fertilizer a this point. Chlorox merely annoys them.
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The patient, a 40-year-old Michigan man with diabetes, seems to have caught the bug off an infected catheter inserted while he was in the hospital for the amputation of a gangrenous toe
Couldn't it be that this person's immune system is so compromised that no AB would cure him? He's one breath away from a corpse.
love is just extroverted narcissism
and don't eat meat (besides the antibiotics, there's all KINDS of other nasty stuff in that stuff)
I eat meat because it tastes like food. I don't eat veggies because I'm smarter than the aminals that eat veggies. I eat them instead. Yum Yum.
That we've licked staph, along comes some guy with $6Mil. "We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better, faster, stronger."
Why not fork?
Great...then some skr1p7 k1dd13 will 0\/\/n j00.
I can't say that I don't give a fuck. I've just run out of fuck to give.
Oh my fucking God I got bit by a fucking mosquito and now it's like I have the flu! Holy shit! If I were old enough that the flu would kill me, I might suffer from a general feeling of weakness, and headaches, and if I didn't go to a doctor for about a month, I could die! Holy fuck! I demand the government spray DDT down the throats of my children this instant!
I'm not so sure that spam-the-mail wouldn't survive as well. I've a sneaking suspicion that those e-mail mass marketers have got to be some sort of subspecies of cockroach.
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
Noooo! You're going to make strains of bacteria that are resistant to your bodies' natural defense mechanisms! The only way to ensure that these damn bacteria don't get out of control is to make sure you DIE every time you get sick. Otherwise, the bacteria will mutate and win.
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." --Oscar Wilde
You should never eat more red-meat than you can hold in the palm of your hand.
Uhm. I can stack a whole lot of meat in the palm of my hand.
One slice of roast beef fits in my hand, as does 50. Are they both proper amounts?
Methinks you need to give clearer directions.
No, no, no. If you burn the body, all you'll be doing is creating fire resistant strains of bacteria. Pretty soon there will be strains of bacteria that can survive in bodies full of burning antibiotics, and then where will we be?
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
Don't let Malda sneeze near you:
Staph aureus can live innocuously in the nose of a healthy person. About 5 to 10 percent of Michiganders have it and don't know it, said William Brown, a Wayne State University pathology professor.
From Psalm 23:
"Thy rod and thy staph shall come for thee."
Clearly, the rod is the bacillus bacterium responsible for Anthrax, and the staph is the aureus.