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To: Morpheus2009

That’s the US, I said globally.

http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/189/Supplement_1/S4

In 3rd world land measles fatality is around 28%. And with poor medicine they’re not really in a situation to be getting their bacteria antibiotic resistant (need regular access to antibiotics to misuse them and strengthen the bacteria).


47 posted on 07/20/2015 2:25:42 PM PDT by discostu (It always comes down to cortexifan)
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To: discostu

http://www.tufts.edu/med/apua/about_issue/africahealth.pdf

More recent updates show that antibiotic abuse and resistance has multiplied in Africa. This isn’t the 1980s anymore. I would be surprised if the superbugs haven’t overtaken measles like they have in India and Pakistan. Antibiotics are cheap enough for a lot of people worldwide, and the mass growth of their use has made the third world a breeding ground nightmare. They are only going to go up, as the usual response is to try the treatment which fails and a number of patients die, even in the developed nations. Antibiotic resistant bacteria are not a joke. We are also not living in the 1850s Hawaii BTW.


49 posted on 07/20/2015 4:04:25 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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