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The Most Dangerous Bacteria
An anonymous reader writes "Forbes has a story listing the six most dangerous bacteria (one's actually a fungus, but it kills people who get it half the time) that have afflicted athletes, soldiers, and hospital patients. Some scientists worry that even with a bunch of new antibiotics hitting the market, there still aren't enough and they want legislation to make it easier for companies to develop them."
As I am a ICU doctor, I see these guys more often that I want.
The problem is that the drug companies don't make much money from antibotics. They have high production costs and are used infrequently...
While hypertension and anti-cholesterol medicines are used by almost everyone if they live long enough.
At least that's the theory why drug companies spend so much less money creating antibotics than other meds.
Syphilis is neither that dangerous nor a bacteria.
The title of the article is very misleading. These 6 are the bacteria/fungus that have been become the highest resistant to antibotics.
Pneumococcus pneumonia, neisseria meningitis, and strep soft tissue infections typically kill patients much quicker than the organisms listed above.... we have good antibotics for these; however, they can just overwealm the system before the antibotics have time to work.