Posted on 01/01/2016 4:03:42 PM PST by bitt
Epidemiologists — people who track diseases — use an expression: Seek and ye shall find. It's a reminder that sometimes when you see a phenomenon, it may not be entirely new. It may be that you've only just noticed it.
Well, the world seems to be having a major seek-and-ye-shall-find moment right now with a worrisome new superbug.
In late December, reports emerged that the mcr-1 gene, which confers resistance to an important antibiotic of last-resort, has been found in bacteria previously collected in the Netherlands, Laos, Algeria, Thailand, and France. There is reason to believe it may also be circulating in Bolivia, Peru, Tunisia, Portugal, Malaysia, and possibly Vietnam and Cambodia.
The journal that has published many of these findings, the Lancet Infectious Diseases, indicated on its Twitter feed that it has more mcr-1 reports in its hopper: "There will be another wave of reports soon."...
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Factory farming was never a good idea. Hello. Institutionalized people have far more disease, crowding and stress up the disease and lower resistance,so they flood them with antibiotics - also a bad idea from the beginning.
Don’t give me any grief on this. I get paid to help docs diagnose patients and understand lab results.
Hep C is rampant in institutions here and H pylori in Russian orphanages.
Agenda 21 wants to crowd us all into apartments. If you live in one, do not live under crowded conditions. You are better off in a mobile home where you can have fresh air and room between your residence and others.
Finally, they will overcome this eventually - tons of antibiotics are in the works. But still, live without crowding, exercise, eat vegetables and fruits, and get fresh air every day.
Not that I ever see. Where are you seeing this? Antibiotics are harder to get than vicodin.
Oh no. This will be overcome. You are selling science way too short.
And there are more tricks up our sleeves as well. Lots of them.
Colloidal silver.
Is topical
Also people will stop taking their anti biotics before the bacteria is gone and it comes back stronger and requires more antibiotics to clear it up. About Mexico, once when we were there I had a migraine headache. I had not carried anything with me so I went into a Mexican pharmacy thinking I would get an over the counter drug. The pharmacist gave me something that knocked me out for 24 hours. When I came to I no longer had a headache, I didn't even know if I had a head. I don't know what he gave me i have never had any thing like before or since,
Thank you for posting this. Hopefully novel antibiotics will be approved someday (soon) to combat organisms resistant to current meds, but it’s a long row to hoe.
So far it seems to be e coli, which causes a ton of urinary tract infections.
Cranberry pills will keep this at bay for those who need help.
None of this is really news....sepsis is the single hot topic in healthcare today.
Every single pathogenic bug we grow is tested for antibiotic susceptibility and tracked.
Just bathe and cook your meat and wash your hands after handling raw food. And wash them again. Sing the ABCs twice while you wash them.
Medium speed singing.
Throw out sponges and replace them. There.
You’re gonna be fine.
I think it is insulting to use a word and then define it. Use one or the other but not both. If I do not know the word I will look it up.
I used to go to Guadalajara one week out of the month on business. I would regularly buy antibotics and put them in the emergence earthquake disaster kit here at home.
This superbug is resistant to last-resort antibiotics. It’s been found on multiple continents.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.
Yep - I never go to the doctors for an illness until it becomes clear that my body isn't winning the battle (about once every 5 years or so to end up with antibiotics). I figure I'd rather let my immune system broaden its defense spectrum.
I have noticed that a lot of clod-like bugs seem to have gotten nastier and harder to shake over the years. Used to be a cold would run it's course in 4-10 days and now there are many that hold on for 3-6 weeks hitting the people around me. Perhaps an unexpected "bonus" to the effects of modern medicine - wonder if there will be a tipping point where it turns out is was only a temporary boon to Mankind...
good article!
Colloidal silver is an antimicrobial similar to antibiotics except that bacteria do not become resistant to it. We make it and take it all the time. It works great. I currently have my 93 year old mother on it taken orally 3 times daily for a UTI. The doctors cannot find an antibiotic that will work on it.
Colloidal silver can also be used topically.
Yes. Oil of Oregano is a powerful antibiotic and anti viral. We take it all the time at the first sign of a cold or upper respiratory infection. Usually it knocks it right out or shortens the duration and intensity. Make sure you get the 70% strength.
Thank you very much, Georgia Girl 2.
I picked up “North American Herb & Spice - Mediterranean Source P73”.
I can’t find the strength so assume it is 100%. I will get some 70%.
Thanks, again. I’m just learning and appreciate your help.
I haven’t taken any yet but will when I feel something coming on.
I think p73 means 73%. 70% and over is what you want.
Oh, good. Thanks.
I take 5000 iu Vitamin D-3 during the summer and increase it to 10000 iu every other day in winter. I am sold on D-3.
I also drink at least two glasses of Green iced tea every day.
Yes we take the D3 and K2 and Tumeric everyday.
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