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Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com)
New submitter maharvey writes: A woman in Pennsylvania has contracted a strain of E Coli that is unaffected by all known legal antibiotics, including the antibiotics of last resort. We have had bacteria that were resistant, but this is the first bacteria that is completely immune. Such bacteria were known in China, but since the woman has not traveled recently it means she contracted it in the wild in the USA. This is a major step toward the terrifying post-antibiotic world.
they've come home to roost.
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I regularly have my Russian women consume vodka before placing their proverbial lips on my appendage. That is, after I place my tinfoil hat on and cross my fingers. So far so good. My anecdotal evidence supports your inquiry AND you read it here on the internet so it must be true.
Biodiversity is a good thing, but we're destroying it. We need to allow nature to create new antibiotics and use those as needed.
Also, there are some fucking absurd abuses of antibiotics. Doctors are way too quick to wrote prescriptions when they aren't necessary. We need to stop prescribing antibiotics when they aren't necessary for infections that will be stopped by the body's immune system or as preventive measures.
Furthermore, we shouldn't be wasting antibiotics on animals, especially for cattle. I'm sorry that one of the animals in your herd is sick. There's no fucking reason to put antibiotics in the feed of all of your cattle. That's fucking ridiculous. Don't use antibiotics on cattle.
This is a fucking big deal. People who misuse antibiotics should lose their license to practice medicine. I'd also support prison time for it.
Topical alcohol is an excellent disinfectant, however for internal infections alcohol tends to kill the host before the bugs so not such a good idea.
protect themselves from the superbug and from other bacteria resistant to antibiotics by thoroughly washing their hands, washing fruits and vegetables thoroughly and preparing foods appropriately.
what about not using antibiotics on living animals? They serve as a feeding ground for antibiotics. The price would be that you have to pay more for products that include flesh, because you would have to isolate the animals better, in order to stop spreading illnesses.
Total Failure of Government and Society and not a good sign for the future of the human race. I personally have been well aware of the risks of Antibiotic-Resistant for over 20 years. This was the text book example of natural selection in my High School Biology class.
Instead of listening to the scientists and public health officals on the risks, we have let the greed and money in big ag run make our laws. We let them dump antibiotics in our livestock food in so we could have cheap meat and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Welcome back to the pre-antibiotic era where a cut can be deadly and hospitals can kill you. Nice job humanity!
More proof of our trade imbalance with China.
Until you turn blue.
Sorry you are unable to follow the Google suggestion. When you learn to read before you rant you will eventually discover that the FUD about silver safety is a scam. You need to consume gallons over a long period of time to experience a change of skin color, and even then it doesn't seem to have health consequences.
When you are selling an expensive patented antibiotic and competing against less expensive OTC silver, will you spread the joy that silver is more effective? Or will you look for any way to eliminate the competition? Use your head when you read various opinions. Or join the marketing staff at Monsanto where they need shills like you.
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This is only a problem for factory farms. Regular farms don't need to rely on antibiotics to keep animals healthy.
We should ban factory farming techniques.
It will drive the price of meat up significantly. That's fine; a whole generation of first-worlders can learn just how protein-rich a plant-based diet can be (before you object, be aware that the shaolin monks (the most powerful athletes in the world) live on a strictly vegan diet from the day they start training (at around 5 years of age). If THEY can do it, so can you!)
This is a stupid question, but I've always wondered why old (very old, unused for decades) antibacterials can't be resurrected with a restored effectiveness. I liken it to the idea of rotating crops so the field soils aren't totally stripped of nutrients by planting the same crop year after year.
I mean: what does in benefit rather simple organisms to continue to pass along resistance to a spectrum of anti-biotic that their ancestors hadn't been exposed to in decades (and that's how many bacterial generations)? Isn't there a 'carrying capacity' or 'memory limit' to what can be added to their code that has to be slowly deprecated / de-prioritized just for physical space constraints? Asserting they have the Borg-like ability to perfectly add to their defenses without end, sounds a bit too apocalyptic to me.
It's not like there was a mass social movement demanding that cows be inundated with antibiotics because they're knee-deep in their own shit on a factory farm. Like climate change, asbestos or the tobacco industry, this is about profit for a handful of people.
Personal responsibility (or rather "don't give a shit about anyone but yourself") yes. But god forbid corporations would be responsible for anything they do! That could endanger jobs! Not to mention profits.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I regularly have my Russian women consume vodka before placing their proverbial lips on my appendage . . . you read it here on the internet so it must be true.
Read?
GIFs or JPGs, or it never happened.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Wow, the medical woo preachers have reached /. I thought I wouldn't see the day.
OK, if you want to join the blue man group and don't mind your kidneys to shut down eventually, go for it. Wash it down with a big glass of chlorine bleach that you idiots love so much as well, just please don't use it on your kids.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Real life farmer here. Maybe is the USA cows in pastures are a lie, but in the UK ours spend the summer out in the fields. It's cheaper to keep them in a pasture than in a barn. Also, we don't feed our cows antibiotics. Again, that's something they might do in the US, but in Europe antibiotics in cattle feeds have been banned for quite some time. We have some factory farms in the UK also, but nothing the size of many US herds. One farmer wanted to build an eight thousand head farm, but it made national news and there was massive public resistance. They do not want that sort of farm in the UK.
If you want to blame farmers for using such practises, blame yourself for looking for the cheapest food you can get. Supermarkets compete on prices. You wanted cheap food, you got cheap food. Now, you realise the price of that cheap food. The farmers were just giving people what they wanted, the cheapest food they could produce. Did you ever pick up an item at the supermarket and think that it was too cheap? When it comes to many quality foods, people should really stop asking themselves "Why is it so expensive?" and ask "Why is the other stuff so cheap?"
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Not life threatening but the quantity of silver required to effectivelky treat such bacterial infection may lead easily to agyria, localized or generalized. On the other hand we may get better avatar porn, so there is a, hehe , silver lining. (and now I'll slap myself silly for the easy joke).
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When you are selling an expensive patented antibiotic and competing against less expensive OTC silver, will you spread the joy that silver is more effective?
I'm not sure where you live, but here in Ontario we have a law that all prescriptions must be automatically replaced with generic versions unless otherwise specified by the physician (very rarely). And guess what? There have not been many new antibiotics discovered in the past 15 years, so the vaaaast majority prescribed are generic. We further make use of all sorts of topical antibacterial solutions containing iodine and hydrogen peroxide, for example.
In other words, if there was any validity at all to what you were saying, physicians would jump at the chance to prescribe silver.
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Had that abundance of caution extended to not giving humans and livestock antibiotics that they didn't need, then we'd probably have another 20 years to develop some new antibiotics.
Everywhere you look, you see tragedy of the commons. But the libertarians continue to blame regulation.
Farms don't overuse antibiotics to keep their animals healthy; they overuse them to make them gain weight faster.
That's stupid. Whose private property will the air fall under if we abolish the government? OK, suppose it's yours. How are you even remotely capable of protecting your private property from exploitation by others without government regulation?
Private property exists because regulations exist to protect private property. Regulation creates things like mineral rights and spectrum rights and land deeds.
"War on Christianity"? Melodrama much?
Only in America would giving someone rights be seen as taking away someone else's rights.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.