Official:
'Catastrophic Threat' of Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs'
UK's
chief medical officer warns of deadly threat of untreatable infections in face
of mutated bacteria
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
ทางการ: ‘ภัยหายนะ’ ของ ‘ซูเปอร์เชื้อโรค’
ที่ดื้อยาปฏิชีวนะ
หัวหน้าเจ้าหน้าที่แพทย์ของสหราชอาณาจักรเตือนภัยคุกคามมรณะของการติดเชื้อที่รักษาไม่ได้เมื่อเผชิญแบคทีเรียกลายพันธุ์
-
ลอเรน แมคเคาลีย์
Antibiotic resistant
"superbugs" pose a "catastrophic threat" as untreatable
infections may prove lethal, Britain's top health official warned in a new report
published Monday.
“ซูเปอร์เชื้อโรค”
ที่ดื้อยาปฏิชีวนะ ได้กลายเป็น “ภัยคุกคามหายนะ”
เมื่อการติดเชื้อที่ไม่สามารถรักษาได้ อาจถึงตายได้,
เจ้าหน้าที่สูงสุดของสหราชอาณาจักรได้เตือนในรายงานใหม่ที่เผยแพร่เมื่อวันจันทร์.
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ปฏิสัมพันธ์ของ
MRSA (แบคทีเรียเขียว)
กับเซลขาวของมนุษย์. แบคทีเรียที่แสดงนี้
เป็นสายพันธุ์ MRSA252,
ซึ่งเป็นสาเหตุนำของการติดเชื้อที่เกี่ยวข้องกับโรงพยาบาลในสหรัฐฯ และ
ในสหราชอาณาจักร.
"Antimicrobial resistance poses
a catastrophic threat. If we don't act now, any one of us could go into
hospital in 20 years for minor surgery and die because of an ordinary infection
that can't be treated by antibiotics," cautioned Sally Davies, England's
chief medical officer.
“การดื้อยาฆ่าจุลินทรีย์
ได้เป็นภัยคุกคามหายนะ. หากเราไม่ทำอะไรเลยตอนนี้,
คนไหนก็ได้ในพวกเราที่อาจเดินเข้าไปในโรงพยาบาลใน ๒๐ ปี เพื่อทำการผ่าตัดเล็กน้อย
และก็ต้องตาย เพราะการติดเชื้อตามธรรมดาที่ไม่สามารถรักษาได้ด้วยาปฏิชีวนะ,” แซลลี
เดวิส, หัวหน้าเจ้าหน้าที่การแพทย์ของอังกฤษ, กล่าว.
"Routine operations like hip
replacements or organ transplants could be deadly because of the risk of
infection," she added.
“การผ่าตัดตามปกติ
เช่น การเสริมสะโพก หรือ เปลี่ยนอวัยวะ อาจถึงตายได้
เพราะความเสี่ยงต่อการติดเชื้อ,”
เธอเสริม.
The pervasiveness of antibiotics—due
to over-prescription, the systemic abuse of
the drugs in industrial food supplies and subsequent leaching into the
environment—is causing increased resistance, challenging bacteria to mutate and
leaving current drugs ineffective against these new bacterial diseases.
การแพร่กระจายของยาปฏิชีวนะ—เนื่องจากการจ่ายยามากเกินไป,
การใช้ยาอย่างผิดๆ ทั้งระบบในอุตสาหกรรมผลิตอาหาร และ
ต่อมาก็รั่วไหลไปในสิ่งแวดล้อม—กำลังทำให้เกิดการดื้อยามากขึ้น,
ท้าทายให้แบคทีเรียกลายพันธุ์ และ
ทำให้ยาปัจจุบันไม่มีประสิทธิผลต่อโรคอันเกิดจากแบคทีเรียใหม่ๆ เหล่านี้.
Davis' statement comes less than a
week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced
an alarming rise in antibiotic resistant, deadly "nightmare bacteria,"
carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).
แถลงการณ์ของเดวิส
ออกมาน้อยกว่าหนึ่งสัปดาห์หลังจากที่ศูนย์ควบคุมและป้องกันโรคติดต่อ
ประกาศถึงการเพิ่มมากขึ้นของฝันร้ายแบคทีเรียมรณะ ที่ดื้อยา, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE).
The Guardian reports, "there has been an alarming increase in other types
of bacteria including new strains of E coli and Klebsiella, which causes
pneumonia."
การ์เดียน
รายงาน, “มีการเพิ่มขึ้นอย่างน่าตกใจในแบคทีเรียประเภทอื่นๆ รวมทั้งสายพันธุ์ใหม่ๆ
ของ E coli และ
Klebsiella ที่เป็นสาเหตุของโรคปอดบวม.”
Reuters adds: One of the best known
superbugs, MRSA, is alone estimated to kill around 19,000 people every year in
the United States - far more than HIV and AIDS - and a similar number in
Europe.
And others are spreading. Cases of
totally drug resistant tuberculosis have appeared in recent years and a new
wave of "super superbugs" with a mutation called NDM 1, which first
emerged in India, has now turned up all over the world, from Britain to New
Zealand.
รอยเตอร์
เติมว่า
หนึ่งในซูเปอร์เชื้อที่รู้จักกันดีที่สุด, MRSA, ตามลำพังได้คร่าชีวิตประมาณ ๑๙,๐๐๐ คนทุกปีในสหรัฐฯ—มากกว่า HIV และ AIDS—และจำนวนเดียวกันในยุโรป. และตัวอื่นๆ ก็กำลังแพร่ขยาย. กรณีของเชื้อวัณโรคที่ดื้อยาเบ็ดเสร็จ
ได้ปรากฏขึ้นในไม่กี่ปีนี้ และระลอกคลื่นใหม่ของ “ซูเปอร์เชื้อ” ที่กลายพันธุ์แล้ว
เรียกว่า NDM 1, ซึ่งผุดขึ้นมาครั้งแรกในอินเดีย,
ได้โผล่ขึ้นมาทั่วโลก, จากสหราชอาณาจักรถึงนิวซีแลนด์.
Last year the WHO said untreatable
superbug strains of gonorrhoea were spreading across the world.
During her statement, Davies calls
for international "anti-biotic stewardship," which includes increased
surveillance drug-resistant superbugs, prescribing fewer antibiotics and making
sure they are only prescribed when needed. She added that, with no new
antibiotics in the "pipeline," there is an urgent need for research
and development to fill a drug "discovery void," to counter the swift
rise of these emerging, mutating infections.
ปีที่แล้ว
WHO กล่าวว่า สายพันธุ์
ซูเปอร์เชื้อโรคหนองใน ที่รักษาไม่ได้ กำลังแพร่กระจายไปมั่วโลก. ในแถลงการณ์ของเธอ, เดวีส เรียกร้องให้ "anti-biotic
stewardship" (“การขับนำเพื่อต่อต้านจุลชีพ”) ในระดับสากล,
ซึ่งรวมถึงเพิ่มการควบคุมตรวจตรา ซูเปอร์เชื้อที่ดื้อยา, จ่ายยาปฏิชีวนะให้น้อยลง
และมีการสั่งจ่ายต่อเมื่อต้องการใช้จริงๆ.
เธอเสริมว่า, เมื่อไม่มียาปฏิชีวนะใหม่เกิดขึ้น,
จำเป็นที่จะต้องมีงานวิจัยและพัฒนาอย่างเร่งด่วน
ที่จะเติมเต็มในช่องว่างการค้นพบยา,
เพื่อถ่วงดุลกับการอุบัติขึ้นอย่างรวดเร็วของเชื้อกลายพันธุ์เหล่านี้.
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ดรุณีแปล
I was researching this topic several
months ago.
Almost all of the resistance is due
to massive overuse of antibiotics in the animals we eat.
Very little of this issue has to do
with doctors over prescribing antibiotics for their patients.
By abusing the food chain and
pushing it to produce beyond natural limits we are harming human health
significantly in multiple ways.
Yes,
this is one of the tools for squeezing people off the land for corporations,
then the displaced become semi-slave wage labor; this practice was perfected in
the US.
Accompanying
brainwash propaganda is that our young did not want the grueling, dirty long
hours of farm work and gladly gave up their independence so corporations could
produce half as much per acre.
Thank
God farmers are protecting our meat sources from infection (and making sure we
have enough milk)!
We
might not survive the super-bugs but at least Elsie will!
No,
Elsie won't either. The poor beasts that are force-fed antibiotics because
they're kept in such disease -producing over-crowding are the first to succumb
to resistant bugs.
Those
aren't farmers; they're technicians.
Let's
not lay the blame at the feet of working people though.
I'm
looking at you Cargill.
Watchin
the TV and some doctor said resistance was because of over prescribing.
I
can't believe the brazen way the propagandists spread these kinds of lies. If
he really believes that he's not qualified to be a doctor. If he's not
qualified to know the facts then why is he on the TV?
Oh
yeah just like the financial meltdown was caused by poor people buying houses.
Now resistant super bugs are caused by sick people going to the doctor.
Not
for a minute do I believe a doctor doesn't know resistance is caused primarily
by factory farms. What they do know is that corporations behind these farms
have the will and the power to sue anyone who may say anything remotely bad
about their products.
Soon
enough it will be considered terrorism to say anything negative about any major
corporation.
Maybe this is Mother Earth's way of
ending humans and saving the planet.
MRSA almost killed my brother in law
several years ago. It also attacked and did damage to my young and healthy son
in his early twenties. It is my understanding that this is not only the result
of the contamination of the entire food chain by antibiotics, but also, and
possibly more importantly by the fact that the pharmaceuticals see little
economic advantage in doing the kind of very expensive research necessary to
develop new antibiotics. Capitalism anyone?
Also
this woman in the video points out there has been a sudden "step"
increase in the last 5yrs of two bugs getting into the blood from the gut! This
fact ties in with the Leaky Gut syndrome which is steadily increasing and is
brought on by eating GMO Corn etc. This is where undigested food particles leak
into the bloodstream and weaken the immune system, leaving a person open to all
kinds of allergies and infectious diseases!
Both ancient and modern models of
medical health are undermined by the demands of the exclusionary extractive
capitalism for profit - now extended throughout most of the medical system and
undermining the coherence of living in health maintenance and capacity for
recovery. Many members of the medical community struggle with being forced into
an economic monsanto sort of model
We are walking, talking conveyors of
entire reciprocal microbial environments that shape our interrelated physical
'systems'. With the western society mono model most of us have been
'advertized' into being unaccustomed to thinking in terms of stewardship of our
bodies being inextricably related to the health of soils, plants, biomes etc in
Living Well.
Community engagement with the vast
range of edible foods and what their intrinsic values alone and in combination
for this reciprocal dance - one of the most stunningly elegant aspects of life,
is finding foothold with the Transition movement. Each is slightly different,
the spectrum of diversity being one of the treasures inherent in all of the
peoples who have been and are being marginalized by ways and means of the
mono-west.
That should put a damper on elective
vanity plastic surgeries.
The specter of numerous
post-apocalyptic fiction scenarios raises it's head...
We really need to stop eating meat.
It is not fair to the animals and not healthy for us!
Thank
you for proposing genocide by starvation for multiple indigenous cultures,
whose environments demand high energy foodstuffs rich in protein and animal
fats.
The
kind of idyllic, utopian lifestyle you envision, especially if enforced across
the globe, is only possible if there is the kind of technological 'farming'
presently being practiced, which almost always lead to food prices that the
majority of the world's population (you know, the -poor-) simply will -NOT- be
able to afford.
You
will also be condemning the species we presently consume to extinction in one
generation, because for the most part, if they were released into the deeply
compromised and contaminated environment we humans have created. They would
starve because there would be no place to graze, as well as no longer having
the instincts to defend themselves from predators effectively.
"Thank
you for proposing genocide by starvation for multiple indigenous cultures,
whose environments demand high energy foodstuffs rich in protein and animal
fats."
Dumb
statement of the year award!
Humans
are herbivores. All the fats, proteins, and other nutrients our bodies require
are available from plant sources. Oh yeah, what about the Inuit? anyone else?
If
you want the real answer to this question, you have to take a global and
historical look at humanity's radical-environmental-misfit program (the
emergence of empire and the migrations it promoted). What are its main
features? A. Unhealthy and environmentally destructive diets and insistence on
occupying habitats designed principally to support other types of creatures.
The
Inuit also consume what plant foods are available: "Grasses, tubers,
roots, stems, berries, and seaweed (kuanniq or edible seaweed) were collected
and preserved depending on the season and the
location.[35][36][37][38][39]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
And,
due to their unnatural diets (considering humans are natural herbivores https://humansareherbivores.wo..., Canada's Inuit people live, on average, 15 years less than
other Canadians.
All
to say, the Inuit would certainly benefit from more plant foods in their diets.
And, if we can create space vehicle grown vegan diets for astronauts (because
NASA determined them to be the most healthful), then we can probably figure out
how to let the Inuit have their freezing weather and locally grown and
plentiful plant foods too!
Humans
are descended from opportunistic omnivore scavengers. If we were strict
herbivores, our intestinal flora would be closer to that of a cow, and our
intestinal structure itself much different.
This
is a myth of our empire/dominator (meat-eating) culture, descended from earlier
empire/dominator (meat-eating) cultures.
"Dr.
T. Colin Campbell, professor emeritus at Cornell University and author of The
China Study, explains that in fact, we only recently (historically speaking)
began eating meat, and that the inclusion of meat in our diet came well after
we became who we are today. He explains that "the birth of agriculture
only started about 10,000 years ago at a time when it became considerably more
convenient to herd animals. This is not nearly as long as the time [that]
fashioned our basic biochemical functionality (at least tens of millions of
years) and which functionality depends on the nutrient composition of
plant-based foods.""
“Early
humans simply couldn’t eat meat.” Donna Hart, Ph.D. & Robert Sussman, Ph.D.
Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution
“When
we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which
contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings,
who are natural herbivores.”
and
“Because
humans get atherosclerosis, and atherosclerosis is a disease only of
herbivores, humans also must be herbivores.”
William
C. Roberts, M.D., editor, American Journal of Cardiology
Anatomy
and Physiology chart available here:
Even
those who believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, should know that your claim
contradicts the Darwinian model. Darwin model classifies man as a so-called
'Great-Ape' [aka the 'Naked Ape']. Yet all of the other great-apes are
basically vegetarian / fruitarians - meaning 90% - 98% of their diet is plant
based food [mainly fruits& nuts] while just 0% - 2% of their diet consist
of eating meat [FYI: On those rare occasions when they do eat meat- they Hunt
for it - NOT Scavenge for it!].
A
break-down of both Human & great-ape anatomy shows that our anatomies &
digestive systems have much more in common w herbivore type land-mammals than
predatory &/or scavenger type land-mammals.
These
2 facts alone, plus the obesity / diabetes / heart-disease / cancer /
food-borne illness [IE: E-Coli, Salmonella, swine & bird flu, etc]-
epidemics that plague the US, EU, etc- due to their SAD meat-centered diet(s)-
are prima-facia evidence that humans were designed / evolved / meant to
basically be plant-eaters [vegan / vegetarians] rather than predators /
carnivores / scavengers.
From Wikipedia / Vegetarianism:} Vegetarians tend to have lower body mass index [BMI], lower levels of cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and less incidence of heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, renal disease, metabolic syndrome, and dementias such as Alzheimer's disease. Consumption of red meat has been found to be directly associated with increased risk of cancers of the esophagus, liver, colon, and [even] the lungs...{
From Wikipedia / Vegetarianism:} Vegetarians tend to have lower body mass index [BMI], lower levels of cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and less incidence of heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, renal disease, metabolic syndrome, and dementias such as Alzheimer's disease. Consumption of red meat has been found to be directly associated with increased risk of cancers of the esophagus, liver, colon, and [even] the lungs...{
Our
bodies crave salt, fat, and sugar. It also craves amino acids in protien. I
believe that tased is called ugami or something like that. That is why we are
so addicted to those salty, fatty cheesburgers with tons of sugary katsup on
them. A leafy salad tastes bland to many. Big food markets the high fat, salt,
and sugar foods to the consumer because it has found that it is what sells and
will make them money. I wonder how all this fits in to the human vegan diet as
an evolutionary human trait that you suggest?
FYI:
Salt is a mineral that comes from the ground &/or sea-water. Sugar is a
carbohydrate that only comes from plant food [or there's honey- but it comes
from bees who make it from PLANT Nectar].And fat comes from both plant food
& meat sources,
Thus only fat comes from meat-sources [nearly always saturated fat plus cholesterol]- YET you can also get it from plants [generally healthier unsaturated fat w NO cholesterol]- which plants are the base of the food-chain.
Thus only fat comes from meat-sources [nearly always saturated fat plus cholesterol]- YET you can also get it from plants [generally healthier unsaturated fat w NO cholesterol]- which plants are the base of the food-chain.
The
fact is that the processed food & fast / junk food industry has got far too
many folks hooked on way too much salt [leads to hi blood pressure], sugar
[leads to diabetes, obesity, tooth decay, etc], & fat [leads to heart
disease, stroke, obesity, hi cholesterol, etc].
FYI
- Food for Thought: Bill Clinton, who as POTUS was known for his Big Mac
Attacks, after 2 FAILED triple by-pass heart surgeries- is now reportedly on a
near total vegan diet.
All time tennis greats Venus & Serena Williams are now on a near totally raw vegan diet [also note tennis greats Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova & Billy Jean King were / are all vegetarians].
Multiple Olympic Medal winning [NOT steroid assisted] track stars Carl Lewis & Edwin Moses were / are vegetarians.
All time tennis greats Venus & Serena Williams are now on a near totally raw vegan diet [also note tennis greats Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova & Billy Jean King were / are all vegetarians].
Multiple Olympic Medal winning [NOT steroid assisted] track stars Carl Lewis & Edwin Moses were / are vegetarians.
But
even with these trained preferences, a vegan restaurant in LA, Veggie Grill,
won the LA Times readers vote for Best American Restaurant.
Twenty
five years ago, I began the quest to launch a vegan fast food chain. The idea
was to present similar tastes and textures at affordable prices in convenient
locations.
I
ran into all sorts of roadblocks... not inherent to the marketplace, but
inherent to a corporate controlled, and even FBI patrolled, marketplace.
Today,
I am beginning to see some of those ideas finding expression through the
efforts of others. And, these efforts do prove that people accustomed to eating
meat will eat vegan food... but it must be introduced (for the majority) in a
manner that is easy for them to relate to.
But,
it has also always been my position that such restaurants are bridges... they
have a planned obsolescence based upon the fact that as people begin to eat
healthier, they will develop desires for more and more healthy options
including locally grown, organic, raw, wild harvested. etc.
And
all life has protein. Plants also have protein and in fact, only plant proteins
are healthy for humans... animal proteins cause incredible problems for humans.
This subject has been discussed in depth by many well known health
professionals; T. Colin Campbell, Dr. McDougall, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Greger,
etc.
Salt
is nearly ubiquitous. Fat is too; avocado, many types of nuts and seeds as well
as coconuts.
What
we have learned is that people prefer the diets they are accustomed to. But,
when a person begins to eat a diet that is better supported by their anatomy,
early conditioning rather quickly gives way to the development of altered and
more natural preferences.
Just
a small point of correction. Humans were naturally designed to be vegan /
fruitarians [FYI: the so-called 'Great- Apes' also fall in this category].
Herbivores are land-mammals that are designed to eat grasses, leaves & twigs, etc IE: Horses, cattle, sheep, goats, deer, camels, elephants, rhinos, hippos, etc.
Herbivores are land-mammals that are designed to eat grasses, leaves & twigs, etc IE: Horses, cattle, sheep, goats, deer, camels, elephants, rhinos, hippos, etc.
If
we need to make exceptions for the indigenous peoples near the Arctic in
N.Alaska, Greenland, N. Siberia- Well if you do the math that's NO More than
2.5 - 3 Million people out a total World population of 7 BILLION!
Thus IMO His is a bogus argument that what 99.95% of the World's people should eat, hinges on what people in the isolated regions of the Arctic Circle eat- who are less than .05% of the World's people.
Because Hey- There's also a tiny % of people in isolated regions that are head-hunter / cannibals IMO: He should consider- Should the other 99.99% of the World's people also become cannibals or would it be better that the tiny % of folks that are cannibals become vegetarians??!
Thus IMO His is a bogus argument that what 99.95% of the World's people should eat, hinges on what people in the isolated regions of the Arctic Circle eat- who are less than .05% of the World's people.
Because Hey- There's also a tiny % of people in isolated regions that are head-hunter / cannibals IMO: He should consider- Should the other 99.99% of the World's people also become cannibals or would it be better that the tiny % of folks that are cannibals become vegetarians??!
Herbivore
means plant eater.
Frugivore
is a type of herbivore and so is a granivore, the correct name for a grass
eater.
We've known this for some time, of
course, but updates are welcome so TY for this newsbit!
I would like to see a
discussion/article on how the human body fights 'superbugs' by itself. While
pharmaceuticals have saved untold lives over time, they have been
over-prescribed (even though it's not the main cause of new resistant
'superbugs'). We, meaning our culture, have come to depend on shots and pills
to deal with everything that happens to us, but as that can and does fall short
of expectations, what can we do to help ourselves?
For instance, there's a flu going
around that lingers, leaves, and comes back! So the body is not, for some
reason, developing a natural immunity to it like it does for so many diseases.
This
devolving crisis is caused by -1} over- inoculation / medication of CAFO Industrialized
farm animals [living in filthy conditions] to support people's increasing meat
consumption -2} As you've indicated- over-inoculation / medication of people
who generally should be able to effectively keep at bay &/or fight off
common ailments based on a healthy / sanitary life-style & wholesome-foods
diet.
I'm sure that scientists who study
in this area know what they're talking about and have made the right call about
the need to be proactive about it. But we've lost governments. We can't do
anything to protect society because we not only don't have an organized,
efficient way to do so (government), but we are faced with a crazy, violent,
organized, efficient anti-civil society, corporatocracy (and governments,
therefore, captured by corporations and special interests) opposing us. If what
we say we need - to keep from climate change disaster, water shortages, food
enough for all, whatever - in any way means reduced profits for corporations,
then good luck.
I would like to write a story about
how the super rich get wiped out by the superbugs that their pricely antibiotic
addition has on our freaked-out world of medicine--maybe the witch-doctor was a
better deal???
19,000 killed a year so far in just
the US by just one of the superbugs is rather grim news. How much worse will it
get is the big question?
It may suddenly take off at any time
and advance to the point where if a child scratches a finger they'll die from
infection.
Before bacteria was even know to
exist, in the 1800s more than 10% of the mothers who gave birth in any hospital
in the world died of a horribly contagious and fast moving infection. In
hospitals were doctors preformed autopsies the death rate for mothers some
years was closer to 80%. Doctors did not wash their hands at that time of
history.
Since so far the money loving pill
industry has not been able to concoct a new antibiotic to fight it, I'd guess
we have a very serious problem heading round the bend which could be a lot
worse than the black death plague.
Well; we do have a serious over
population problem on the planet. Nature has a way of correcting that problem
in the animal kingdom and we are actually just another specie of the animals.
Many
times people with a superbug infection actually die from something else so that
figure is actually very under-reported.
I
believe you are correct wildcarrots and I appreciate all of your informative
posted comments here. Thank you.
I
appreciate your comments as well, Thank you too.
"in
the 1800s more than 10% of the mothers who gave birth in any hospital in the
world died of a horribly contagious and fast moving infection". That is in
part because the medical doctors of the day refused to wash their hands when
moving from mother to mother, and therefore they passed around the bacteria.
The Austrian medico who recognised the problem, in I think the 1840s, forced
his staff to wash their hands, leading to a massive drop in mortality rates
among mothers who had just given birth in his hospital. He lost his job over
the issue and was confined to a lunatic asylum for a while, before infecting
himself delberately, and dying, to prove his point.
I
have seen these days, in modern hospitals, doctors failing to simply wash their
hands or to wear appropriate discardable clothing when moving in and out of an
isolation ward. I have seen dirty and medically uncleanable carpets in hospital
wards. Nurses no longer clean wards themselves; it is beneath their
"dignity" and yet the cleaner is THE most important person in any
hospital; rather, cleaning is now contracted out to the cheapest bidder.
Aseptic practices are no longer employed with the rigour they were practised
before antibiotics came about and this is surely a contributing factor to the
spread of the antibiotic-resistant bugs.
Yes;
that was Dr. Phillip Ignaz Semilweis. I posted a link for an article about him
in my first posted comment here.
Sir
Joseph Lister was one of his students in medical school and he carried on the
work of Semilweis and Lister became know as the father of antiseptics. He gave
the credit to Semileweis.
For
sure, whatever you do, don't end up in the hospital! And if you do go there to
visit someone, don't touch anything and wear a mask!
Eventually
every hospital will have to be abandoned but the corps will milk each one for
profit up to the moment it becomes too obvious that they are hazardous to
anyone who enters.
The
rich of course don't have this issue. They can have doctors and instruments
delivered to their home if necessary. Super bugs will likely take the biggest
toll on the poor.
There
are infection control procedures that eliminate contamination of superbugs but
they are either very toxic or expensive. Conventional methods don't work, and
have very poor compliance. In some cases it actually makes it worse. Those
antiseptics that kill 99% of all bacteria leave that very dangerous 1%.
The sheeple are stirring in their
sleep! Quick, ramp up the fear quotient!
The real truth is the medical
industrial complex wants more money. What better way to increase funding levels
than a panicked public?
Are
you "affected" in some way or just plain willfully ignorant?
Maybe
you would like to explain? Ignorant about what? MRSA has been around for over
30 years and have since routinely seen news and medical-industrial complex
releases shrilly warning us of the "new" threat. Wake me when you
have an answer.
The
fact that MRSA has "been around for over 30 years" does not relate to
the spread of immune resistant antibiotics. The pharmaceuticals may be a pack
of greedy bastards but this might more closely tie in with my post above to the
effect that they will not do the needed research because they don't benefit
economically from same and not in their hopes of attracting a bonanza of
research money. Your logic would have us believing that the fossil fuel
industry is hyping climate change to increase their profit margins when the
very opposite is the case.
A
good argument for reverse privitization.
MRSA
is very real and can be very deadly but some of the others are worse. They are
spore forming bacteria and once in the environment are very difficult to get
rid of.
Actually,
most of these are HAI diseases, (hospital acquired infection) and medicare will
not pay to treat them (they are VERY expensive to treat). The problem is that
they are moving to community acquired diseases.
Come on, don't you understand our
national priorities? We can't afford to pay for medical research on new and
better ways to treat the super bugs, because we need to protect the tax breaks
of private jet owners, and give more tax breaks to the cash hoarders so that
they can amass an even larger proportion of our national wealth.
This phenomenon is a wonderful
illustration of evolution at work. From the bug's perspective, it's really
quite beautiful. Random mutations leading to explosions in populations of
resistant variants. All right-wingers should get a crash course in virology, it
might change their whole world-view.
Nature culling out the cancers.
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