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Posted on 08/31/2011 11:27:34 AM PDT by decimon
A major cholera pandemic has spread in at least three waves from a single global source: the Bay of Bengal.
A study in Nature reveals cholera's spread over the last 60 years into Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, continent-hopping on long-haul flights.
The research by a team from Cambridge's Sanger Institute showed the infection is evolving, with the newest waves showing antibiotic resistance.
A UK expert said it was "a scandal" cholera was still affecting people.
Cholera is a bacterial infection of the intestine that causes diarrhoea. It affects 3-5m people annually in 56 countries, killing between100,000 and 150,000.
If untreated, it can kill within hours through dehydration. It is easily treated by drinking clean water, but without this, severe cases have a 30-50% mortality rate.
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"Many people can have cholera with no symptoms, so they transmit it without realising," added Dr Thomson.
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That means that the resistance was acquired within 15 years of the first clinical use of antibiotics tetracycline and furazolidone for cholera treatment.
Dr Thompson said: "I'm not surprised it happened so fast. We think that antibiotic resistance moves between strains, and in one fell swoop a strain can become multi-resistant."
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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
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“showed the infection is evolving, with the newest waves showing antibiotic resistance”
the INFECTION is evolving?
Definitley NOT written by someone with a clinical HCP background.
The population of bacteria Vibrio cholerae is exhibiting signs of resistance to legacy antibiotics — via shifts in its genome at a population level.
Always fun watching films of raw sewage and toxic waste being dumped in to the Ganges up stream while others bath and do ritual imersions in the sacred filth.
not to mention human remains. That Bay of Bengal is probably a toxic soup worthy of being a Superfund site.
CAn it spread by phone from the support centers in India to the U.S.? Better safe than sorry!
Cholera can easily and cheaply be prevented by adding a small amount of chlorine to drinking water. So, natch, the libtards are protesting it’s use.
Make Love canal look like an oasis.
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