Posted on 10/13/2017 6:08:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Antibiotic resistance will end modern medicine and push us into a "post-antibiotic apocalypse", England's chief medical officer has warned.
Dame Sally Davies has issued a call to action urging global leaders to address the growing threat of resistance to antibiotics.
Professor Davies warns antibiotic resistance can jeopardise everyday medical procedures and make them "risky" - including caesarean sections, cancer treatments and hip replacements.
She also says without drugs to treat infections, transplant medicine would be a "thing of the past".
Professor Davies told Sky News: "The post-antibiotic apocalypse is that when you get an infection, we cannot guarantee it will be curable, treatable, so, conditions like routine operations will be a serious risk to life.
"Transplants and cancer treatments will be very risky. We already have deaths across the world because of drug-resistant infections, we cannot put up with this.
"I don't want to say to my children that I didn't do my best to protect them and their children."
The World Health Organisation says antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development today.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
I’m worried about herbicide resistant weeds.
We killed off all the non resistant strains, and the stuff that remains is hard to kill. We have automated so much that there are few who remember the old ways, and the equipment doesn’t support it.
When one man on a farm is no longer able to feed thousands, you will see some very interesting times.
We have been living in a Diamond age, and have squandered it.
Someone will be along shortly to claim colloidal silver will save us from doom.
>>We have been living in a Diamond age, and have squandered it.
I agree. I know what I would have done differently (in hindsight and if I had been the policymaker of the US for the past 50 years). What would you have done differently?
Thousands of lives will be saved as needless surgeries won’t be performed. Years ago, doctors went on strike. The mortality rate improved dramatically.
Politicians cannot be worried about the end of antibiotics because that is something that won't happen This Year which is their max horizon for things that are not the primary ideological goal.
On a somewhat optimistic note, I think machinery/automation is making a lot of human labor unnecessary. I definitely see a future US where about 250 million Americans sit at home waiting for a government check because they are unable to contribute to society. Not good. They will just cause trouble.
Or
We could have a “back to the land” movement and have a whole lot of people have 5 acre farms. It gives them meaningful work. It helps support their families. If “modern farming” is no longer operative and older, more labor-intensive methods need to be deployed, then we have lots of people with time on their hands.
I would not recommend enormous plantations with a thousand people picking cotton. I imagine there would be pushback to that idea. But a thousand 5 acre farms where people live life on their own terms doesn’t seem so bad. I’d go for it.
Regardless of the path that will be taken, I think the future will be different and probably troubled, and I am not at all sure that it will look the “The Jetsons”.
None of this bodes for a healthy future, if people won't recognize that the best healing machine is the human body, if properly maintained.
“Dame Sally Davies has issued a call to action urging global leaders to address the growing threat of resistance to antibiotics.”
“Dame” What are, back to the Stone Age or something? The ABUSE OF WOMEN in this story is FAR MORE SERIOUS than a microbe or two that fights back.
Horrible, I say just HORRIBLE.
(LOL)
Perhaps if we spent some effort to fight these microbes, rather than making football players run around in PINK, we might make some progress.
But microbes do not have a political constituency, so virtually nothing is getting done.
“What would you have done differently?”
I think we should have considered the ability of microbes to develop resistance. Not long ago my wife had an infection that nearly killed her. They took a culture and had something like 40 strains they looked for, and they listed what worked with each strain. The first ones on the list were easiest to kill and listed a large number of drugs, some very familiar. The last ones on the list were much tougher, and only had one or two exotic drugs that worked. Thankfully her strains (several of them) were all on the top of the list.
This crap is SERIOUS...surgeries is one of the few areas where I actually respect modern medicine...since you can be totally blind (cataracts, for example) and then come out seeing again, often for the first time in years. We do need a serious effort, and if it takes a “dame” to point it out, who cares!!!
You are wrong. the Poofter Constituency has been swapping STDs until your average Hep C or Clap microbe is renting their own apartments, and getting a job as a graphics designer, or applying for unemployment...
...but not the same microbes, as I understand it. But I admit to not being an expert on this.
Medical error is the 3rd leading cause of death.
“’Post-antibiotic apocalypse’ could make everyday procedures ‘risky’”
FYI they have been saying this for over 20 years now.
We need to stop investing so much money into breast cancer and beauty products and develop new antibiotics.
Killing the sexual liberation spreading drug resistant STDs would also help.
Colloidal silver won’t but phages will.
Antibiotics are dangerous. They are dumped on livestock by the bucketfull, prophylactically. Until this practice is reduced I don’t know that it matters what happens in the human population.
Antibiotics are dangerous. They are dumped on livestock by the bucketfull, prophylactically. Until this practice is reduced I don’t know that it matters what happens in the human population.
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