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Drug-Resistant Superbugs Sweeping Across Europe
Pierre Bezukhov writes "Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common cause of pneumonia, urinary tract, and bloodstream infections in hospital patients. The superbug form is resistant even to a class of medicines called carbapenems, the most powerful known antibiotics, which are usually reserved by doctors as a last line of defense. The ECDC said several EU member states were now reporting that between 15 and up to 50 percent of K. pneumoniae from bloodstream infections were resistant to carbapenems. To a large extent, antibiotic resistance is driven by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, which encourages bacteria to develop new ways of overcoming them. Experts say primary care doctors are partly to blame for prescribing antibiotics for patients who demand them unnecessarily, and hospitals are also guilty of overuse."
So now we can train bugs to say no to drugs, next step is to move to animals and then finally humans!
> > > which encourages bacteria to develop new ways of overcoming them.
> > which encourages bacteria to **evolve** new ways of overcoming them.
> which encourages god to design new ways for bacteria of overcoming them.
which encourages god to increase his research and development funding to develop evolution to allow new ways for bacteria of overcoming them.
which is totally what she said
Bacteria on the continent are allowed a little antibiotics with meals even at a young age, so they grow up with a much more mature attitude towards it. That's why they're much better at handling antibiotics than British and American bacteria.
It will just train bacteria to become alcoholics :)
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which encourages creationists to evolve new arguments to overcome all evidence.
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"Viruses react to antibiotics" +4 informative.
Looks like this particular comment and its moderation proves the point made by OP about utter ignorance of even fairly intelligent members of the public about the important details of the problem.
You are too kind. The traditional /. method of dealing with basic errors like substituting 'virus' for 'bacteria' as above would have been to label me a moron who knows nothing about anything, and then slander my mother.
I never liked biology.
I, too, base my health maintenance plan on comedy routines.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Why do you hate America? Only liberals believe in actually paying our debts.
Here in the United Tea Party States we know that if we just pray real hard and eliminate all taxes, everything we need will be supplied by Jesus, riding on a golden unicorn.
So just stop it with your socialist ideas about providing for the common defense and general welfare. True patriots know that George Washington didn't like that sort of thing, and that's why he put the words "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance.