Posted on 11/20/2015 4:13:13 PM PST by sparklite2
The world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed.
They identified bacteria able to shrug off the drug of last resort - colistin - in patients and livestock in China.
They said that resistance would spread around the world and raised the spectre of untreatable infections.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Yeah, that whole investment, profit, capitalism thingy.
We're good! She is finally retiring in January and we're moving to Kentucky.
the range treats me like the unibomber
That range treats everybody like the unibomber, or worse yet, an unvetted instructor. 8^)
Do you have any good links about it?
one does not need a prescription (so i have heard) to obtain antibiotics in mainland china.
they sell antibiotics at the pharmacy level to patients/customers who arrive complaining of common cold symptoms.
Resistance spreads when the bacteria travel in food or in hosts, and it spreads to different strains or species when bacteria trade bits of DNA.
So you can shake hands with someone who hugged someone coming back from China, and your S.aureus can acquire resistance from a few travelling bacteria, and the resistance - that gene - has effectively spread.
You’re privileging organisms over genes, FRiend.
They restrict the use of antibiotics in humans but allow its unregulated use in animals, here`s an idea, restrict its use in animals as well. AND if the price of meat does go up, then so be it!
““Until now, colistin resistance resulted from chromosomal mutations, making the resistance mechanism unstable and incapable of spreading to other bacteria.”
This is not even close to being true. Bacteria transfer chromosomal DNA to each other all the time using viruses, plasmids and even naked DNA. It also commonly occurs between species.
“Resistance does not spread; microorganisms spread.”
Resistance does spread. It can be transferred from one organism to another and spread within a population.
any place good in ky? gonna try moonshining? say hi to the sis for me. enjoy the retirement, keep in touch.
Jack,
No, but one of my doctors told me a story about ozone...
There is some kind of group of (maybe alternative) doctors that include ozone in their practices. My doctor belongs to this as well as other groups.
A group of these practitioners went to Africa to help with the Ebola breakout. They brought ozone machines. Before they landed, the country received a call from the FDA saying not to let them use the ozone to treat ebola patients.
They were frustrated, but helped the best they could while there. One doctor contracted ebola. He treated himself with ozone and eliminated it withing a couple days.
And so it goes...
It got rid of Ebola???? Wow!
I did some checking and found out that Amazon carries ozone generators for water purification. One is as cheap as $50.
In the back of my mind is something I read about not buying a cheap ozone generator from China...
all I can remember. Beware.
China feeds colistin to pigs and some European countries do too. We have squandered a lot of the most effective drugs.
Is KY where they make that jelly?
There is a small company called Medizone that tried to sell equipment that cured hepatitis C by ozonating (is that a word?) the patient’s blood. A friend, an inveterate gambler, invested thousands of dollars, all of what should have been his retirement funds, in Medizone. It now trades in the pink papers but I’m sure he’s holding out for a bonanza.
The retort cooking specifications for canned foods are well established. I am not concerned about some "super-bug" in canned goods. The added salt concentration in canned foods is for flavor enhancement, not preservation. Salt preservation in foods works best in conjunction with dehydration - think of fermented sausages, country ham, sauerkraut.
Don’t cut your finger.
The question is at what cost - did we just kick the can down the road (like the economy/illegals, etc.) so when SHTF it is a huge and sudden deal vs. the slower path that may have helped us better adapt our natural defenses>
Most of us will be dad and buried before the worst scenario happens - hopefully they will come up with viable replacements.
i think so
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