Posted on 02/27/2013 7:56:45 AM PST by chessplayer
A sharp jump in the number of rare but potentially deadly types of a superbug resistant to nearly all last-resort antibiotics has prompted government health officials to renew warnings for U.S. hospitals, nursing homes and other health care settings.
The move comes just as researchers in Israel are reporting that people colonized with dangerous CRE -- Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae -- can take more than a year before they test negative for the bacteria, making it more difficult to control -- and raising the risk of wider spread.
Reports of unusual forms of CRE have nearly doubled in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this month. Of 37 cases of rare forms of CRE, including the alarming NDM -- New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase -- 15 have been reported since last July.
(Excerpt) Read more at vitals.nbcnews.com ...
Is it true that by using anti bacterial soaps we are doing ourselves to be less resistant to infections?
Is it true that by using anti bacterial soaps we are making ourselves less resistant to infections?
No but they kill the good bugs that can attack the bad bugs. Rather like a blanket insecticide on a garden. That’s why they switched everyone to alcohol.
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)
CRE, which stands for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, are a family of germs that are difficult to treat because they have high levels of resistance to antibiotics. Klebsiella species and Escherichia coli (E. coli) are examples of Enterobacteriaceae, a normal part of the human gut bacteria, that can become carbapenem-resistant.
Healthy people usually do not get CRE infections. In healthcare settings, CRE infections most commonly occur among patients who are receiving treatment for other conditions. Patients whose care requires devices like ventilators (breathing machines), urinary (bladder) catheters, or intravenous (vein) catheters, and patients who are taking long courses of certain antibiotics are most at risk for CRE infections.
Some CRE bacteria have become resistant to most available antibiotics. Infections with these germs are very difficult to treat, and can be deadly—one report cites they can contribute to death in 40% of patients who become infected.
http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/organisms/cre/index.html
eColi: Oh Sh*t!
Yes, I believe so....look for ones without triclosan...
Actually, this “rare, superbug” sounds like certain Democrats
Yeah and keep letting millions of illegal with all kinds of infections come across the border,go to school with are kids and spread all these wonderful germs
Yes
Yeah and keep letting millions of illegal with all kinds of infections come across the border,go to school with are kids and spread all these wonderful germs
I think abuse of anti-biotics is far more of a problem. I had a tooth infection about a month ago. In the past, penicillin always did the job. This time it didn’t. Totally ineffective. My dentist has to prescribe a totally different line of anti-biotics. More and more anti-biotics are being made useless because we abuse them. Farmers are the biggest, by far, abusers of them. They pump huge amounts of anti-biotics into their livestock and chickens, so it’s little wonder why bacteria are becoming totally resistant to them.
You think illegal aliens develop resistance to all kinds of high-tech antibiotics before they jump the border?
Ping
There is a ‘natural’ anti-bacterial, anti-viral treatment that likely would work therapeutically on this CRE resistant stuff. It was used successfully 75 or 80 years ago by a couple of medical doctors in treating diphtheria (bacterial) and polio (viral). They achieved major successes in treating polio, but official medicine did not want to know. Had this been used on a wide scale, many would have been saved from the agonies of the iron lung and paralysis. What did they use? Magnesium chloride solution, administered internally in therapeutic doses.
Read details here...
http://www.arthritistrust.org/Articles/Magnesium%20Chloride%20Hexahydrate%20Therapy.pdf
http://www.mgwater.com/rod05.shtml
http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/magnesiumchloride.html
We have seen the successful use of Magnesium Chloride in therapeutically treating MRSA, and we believe it would also be successful in treating C. diff (Clostridium difficile)
Today’s fad of extreme sexual perversion does not help. It will clean itself out because we have the freedom of choice in life, but not the freedom of avoiding consequences.
This politically correct fad of institutionalized perversion is a threat to public health. We are going to pay.
Sure glad all Jan the man’s perverts are groping everyone at the airports. That is gonna help.
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