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This superbug is resistant to last-resort antibiotics. It's been found on multiple continents.
THE WEEK ^
| 12/25/2015
| Helen Branswell
Posted on 01/01/2016 4:03:42 PM PST by bitt
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Fox news just had a segment on this - this is YUGE! (HUGH?)
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:03:42 PM PST
by
bitt
To: bitt
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:04:18 PM PST
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bitt
(If Obama is really worried about �the children�, he should be bombing planned parenthood.)
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:06:14 PM PST
by
bitt
(If Obama is really worried about �the children�, he should be bombing planned parenthood.)
To: bitt
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:08:54 PM PST
by
bitt
(If Obama is really worried about �the children�, he should be bombing planned parenthood.)
To: bitt
And doctors continue to hand out antibiotics for every little sniffle.
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:11:46 PM PST
by
LydiaLong
To: bitt
Although I’ve never been to Mexico I’ve read that for years Mexicans have been able to walk into a pharmacy and get various antibiotics without a prescription.Presumably the same happens elsewhere in the world.Add to that Westerners who demand antibiotics for every little sniffle and disaster was bound to happen.
To: bitt
Hussein is bringing it in on every plane, bus and ship.
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:19:34 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Gay State Conservative
And the irony is that antibiotics have no effect against colds, or the flu, which are viruses.
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:23:43 PM PST
by
Signalman
To: Gay State Conservative
You can buy anything at a Mexican Pharmacia.
A few things require prescription but often there is an ‘MD’ next door who writes them for a few bucks wo even seeing you.
Used to live in El Paso.
When they restricted steroid sales in the US people were lined up for blocks in Juarez to buy them...idiots!
I think even Mexico has since restricted steroid sales. (T not E)
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:25:17 PM PST
by
Bobalu
(Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
To: Gay State Conservative
Add to those problems the fact most beef,pork and chicken sold in this country comes from animals fed antibiotics daily.
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:35:11 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: bitt
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:35:22 PM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Gay State Conservative
Presumably the same happens elsewhere in the world.India.
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:41:12 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
To: Georgia Girl 2
Colloidal silver.
Someone told me to also get some Oil of Oregano. Do you agree?
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:45:02 PM PST
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Also....The antibiotics fed routinely to animals.
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:49:42 PM PST
by
wintertime
(Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
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posted on
01/01/2016 4:53:16 PM PST
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Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
How much time do we have until everything is antibiotic resistant? Thirty years? At best...
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posted on
01/01/2016 6:02:38 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Trump's instincts are as formidable as his courage, he knows the nation's bleeding out..DWest)
To: LydiaLong
It’s not so much that doctors too easily handout antibiotics, but that they handout too little the first time around. This enables the bug to develop a resistance before a stronger dose is finally prescribed.
Others mention antibiotics don’t stop viruses, but often with viruses a secondary infection comes with it that must be hit with antibiotics
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posted on
01/01/2016 6:08:41 PM PST
by
jimfr
To: GOPJ
We'll have to wait for advances in nanotechnology? Maybe 50 years? Our grandchildren will probably benefit.
In the meantime, we need to invent new antibiotics. That would buy us some time. But the problem is that there's no money in it for the drug companies.
To: bitt
Nature wins no matter what. Stop all See Uh Oh 2 and she’ll still kick our arrogant butts in the end. So to speak.
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posted on
01/01/2016 6:33:57 PM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: MinorityRepublican
Seems to me that I read that Scripps or someplace had successfully used “nano sponges” to help get rid of resistant bugs. Now I will have to go find what I read.
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posted on
01/01/2016 6:47:49 PM PST
by
Mjaye
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