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New Superbug Weapon to Replace Failing Antibiotics
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers in British Columbia have identified a peptide that can fight infection by boosting the immune system. Because antibiotics are under threat due to an explosion of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, this may be just in time."
I won't take it unless it comes with mint frosting.
I, for one, hope it doesn't work. I have a lot of shotgun shells and canned foods that will go to waste if my prediction of bacteria wiping out the human race doesn't come true.
I don't respond to AC's.
Let's inject it into all our livestock.
We are all just people.
We need to develop a new, superstrong antibiotic called Placebocillin. If that doesn't work, we can always try intravenous Cephplacebo.
Man, you really need that seminar!
"falling antibiotics" - and immediately think of Dr. Mario?
That's why I have my kids lick the floors in public restrooms!
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LoL, lmao, "by a shotgun" are hardly indicators of high IQ yourself, Einstein.
Jesus, they even list 2008 as the copyright. Talk about low maintenance.
You've got it all wrong. Treating disease has never been about eliminating bacteria. After all, we've reached the end of history already (when was that? some time in the late 80s?), such concepts are so early twentieth century. Treating disease is more akin to a clash of civilizations, and the only cure is the eternal spread of democracy coupled with a reformation of bacterial ideology.
Once those bacteria start listening to Britney Spears, waving their purple stained pseudopods in the plasma and embrace democracy, they'll stop the endless bloodshed and start acting like civilized Americans!
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
since everyone is a big baby and rushes out to get antibiotics at the first sniffle
Not me. I'm tempered in raw sewage!
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