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."

Comments

"hey mom"

[Anonymous Coward]

thanks for making me use all that anti-bacterial soap all the time. now i'm locked up in a room for 6 months.

Re:"hey mom"

[nurightshu]

You're French, aren't you?

Re:Irradiation is the answer

[Viking Coder]

Watch, it'll become immune to radiation. Now THAT's a scary bug.

all the more reason

[Maskirovka]

to quit washing your hands! the more bacteria resistant YOU are, the less you have to rely on artificial crutches like antibiotics.

this is disturbing.

[Unknown Poltroon]

Luckily, i take my cipro once a week, so this shouldnt bother me.

Re:DNA Theft

[BitwizeGHC]

In the article, it says that the Staph bug stole DNA from another bug already inside the woman to become resistant to vancomycin.

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?

Re:It helps to read the article

[Anonymous Coward]

is attributed to the mixing of antibiotics, including methicillin, with heroin by Detroit drug users from the 1970's.

Oh great, ANOTHER reason why I picked the wrong day to start using heroin.

And the creationists will say?

[myowntrueself]

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."

Obviiously

[Unknown Poltroon]

you have never met teh bacteria and mildew in my bathroom. THe view soap as fertilizer a this point. Chlorox merely annoys them.

Re:Obviiously

[Cervantes]

you have never met teh bacteria and mildew in my bathroom.

Actually, we have met it occasionally, but normally it posts as an AC. Don't forget to say hi to Steve, the thing that lives on the crap in your keyboard, for me.

And yes, for my sugar-starved brain, this is humour. And for the brain-starved mods, this is not troll nor flame, though perhaps flaming trolls could clean his bathroom...

Just when you think

[CableModemSniper]

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."

Re:Irradiation is the answer

[Dannon]

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.