New Approach of Resistant Tuberculosis (not exactly)

ScienceDaily ^ | Aug. 10, 2012 | NA

[neverdem]

Scientists of the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine have breathed new life into a forgotten technique and so succeeded in detecting resistant tuberculosis in circumstances where so far this was hardly feasible. Tuberculosis bacilli that have become resistant against our major antibiotics are a serious threat to world health.

If we do not take efficient and fast action, 'multiresistant tuberculosis' may become a worldwide epidemic, wiping out all medical achievements of the last decades.

A century ago tuberculosis was a lugubrious word, more terrifying than 'cancer' is today. And rightly so. Over the nineteenth and twentieth century it took a billion lives -- more than the world population in 1800. Only in the nineteen fifties it became possible to push the disease back, with newly developed antibiotics. Countless sanatoria in Switzerland were closed one after the other and converted into hotels. Today almost nobody in the industrialized world still grasps the gruesome nature of 'consumption disease'. The treatment was so successful that the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1960 decided to eradicate tuberculosis once and for all. It almost worked.

But Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a tough adversary, demanding a treatment with several antibiotics simultaneously during months on end. Hardly feasible in developing countries. The numerous erratic or halted treatments led to growing numbers of bacilli that were resistant to several antibiotics. In the early eighties the death toll first stagnated and then got up again. The arrival of AIDS in the same period made things worse, because an infection with the one makes you more susceptible to the other.

Today we witness a growing number of 'multiresistant' tuberculosis, withstanding our best medicines, and only treatable with a costly and long cure of toxic drugs. Unfeasible in developing countries. According to WHO estimations, of the 5 million or so multiresistant cases...

[neverdem]

PubMed says the literature about this method goes back to 1980, if you enter "fluorescein diacetate" and tuberculosis into its query box. The WHO has been sleeping again.

[unlearner]

The therapeutic use of orally administered hydrogen peroxide has cured tuberculosis among other serious illnesses. It is cheap enough for a practical third-world treatment.

[neverdem]

The therapeutic use of orally administered hydrogen peroxide has cured tuberculosis among other serious illnesses. It is cheap enough for a practical third-world treatment.

Failure of dry mist of hydrogen peroxide 5% to kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Do you have a link?

[Venturer]

This article does not go into why tuburculosis is returning.

Lets state the facts. AIDS & HIV are the primary reason.

We screwed up years ago when we refused to isolate HIV patients, like Tiberculosis patients were once isolated.

No: That wasnt politically correct, so we turned HIV loose on the world.We let homosexuals spread it to bi-sexuals and bisexuals spread it to their wives or girlfriends.

The HIV virus weakend the immune system and her comes tuberculosis again.New strains that anti-biotics don’t work on.

But it still isn’t politically correct to blame Homosexuals for this mess so we don’t say why tuberculosis came back, and we put Homosexuals in our military and allow for same sex marriages.

That’s good thinking.

[Bigg Red]

You are correct. Add to all of those failures porous borders.

But, actually, I am sure it is all George Bush’s fault.

[notomarx]

AIDS and HIV was a money maker for Big Pharma. I do not know why TB is returning but I do know American’s are so busy using hand washing and anti bacteria soaps that they have almost destroyed the immune system God gave them.
Are Skin Care Products Harmful?
http://coconutcreamcare.com/2012/07/27/are-skin-care-products-harmful/

[neverdem]

We screwed up years ago when we refused to isolate HIV patients, like Tiberculosis patients were once isolated.

Commie Cuba got one thing right!

No: That wasnt politically correct, so we turned HIV loose on the world.We let homosexuals spread it to bi-sexuals and bisexuals spread it to their wives or girlfriends.

The HIV virus weakend the immune system and her comes tuberculosis again.New strains that anti-biotics don’t work on.

I'm surprised that you weren't already denounced for not doubting that HIV is just a harmless retrovirus, or that AIDS is just due to dietary deficiency, injecting drugs, homosexual behavior or some confounding error in diagnosis. Anything, but the so called harmless retrovirus, even when all of the criteria of the Koch's postulates have been met.

This gets to where scepticism about scientific theories backfires. Scepticism about new theories is a time honored tradition in science for good reasons, but at some point when you have a preponderance of evidence that scepticism finally yields to reason. The idea works like a law in physics. IMHO, there's a preponderance of evidence supporting HIV causing AIDS and evolution more or less as described by Charles Darwin. Sceptics of anthropogenic global warming are now routinely lumped in with those who deny evolution and those who deny HIV causing AIDS.

[unlearner]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1829131/
and
http://www.garner-ds.com/library/DeconH2O2againstTBAppliedMicrobiology.pdf
(not orally administered here, but relevant to the information in the link you provided)

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidecancertherapybookexcerpt.shtml

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_industryweapons33.htm
reference published in Gazette de Sante for results of a successful treatment in 1783 by the French physician, Caillens.

http://www.cidpusa.org/h202.htm

I cannot vouch for the credibility of this claim since I have no first-hand experience with TB, but it seems like a reasonable path to explore for many illnesses due to historical accounts of successful treatments and the low cost.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links, but other than the anecdote from the French physician, Caillens, using some kind of oxygen therapy, they were about a topical use of solutions of hydrogen peroxide or vapors of it to decontaminate surfaces. Drinking solutions of it seems like a good way to attack your gut with free radicals, IMHO.

[grey_whiskers]

Anything, but the so called harmless retrovirus, even when all of the criteria of the Koch's postulates have been met.

Shhhhhh! Now all the DUmmies will quote FreeRepublic that the Koch Brothers started AIDS! /liberal>

Cheers!