sean6 Posted February 28, 2013 #1 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Reports of rare superbug jump in US, CDC says A sharp jump in the number of rare but potentially deadly types of a superbug resistant to nearly all last-resort antibiotics has prompted government health officials to renew warnings for U.S. hospitals, nursing homes and other health care settings. The move comes just as researchers in Israel are reporting that people who carry dangerous CRE -- Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae -- can take more than a year before they test negative for the bacteria, making it more difficult to control and raising the risk of wider spread. http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/27/17105852-reports-of-rare-superbug-jump-in-us-cdc-says?lite http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/02/27/reports-rare-superbugs-increasing-in-us/ this is all we need now right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted March 4, 2013 #2 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Doesn't surprise me. I was reading a few months back about a new strain of gonorrhea and tuberculosis that is untreatable. Might should stop putting patients in the same room together. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesspy Posted March 5, 2013 #3 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Ahhh......Bacteria ......the downfall of man. Superbugs are accumulating because dumb people do not finish their course of antibiotics. Or at the first sign of a cold stupid doctors prescribe antibiotics. Then the stupid food companies stick antibiotics in everything. Therefore the bacteria grow a resistance to the antibiotics and pass their resistance down. These things multiply with binary fission they just replicate themselves over and over again they are little cloning machines. It only takes one bacteria to be resistant. Some bacteria can multiply 100 fold in a matter of hours. Soon we will be back to pre war situations and if you get an infection it has to be removed surgically or you are left to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhyDontYouBeliEveMe Posted March 5, 2013 #4 Share Posted March 5, 2013 (edited) Ahhh......Bacteria ......the downfall of man. Superbugs are accumulating because dumb people do not finish their course of antibiotics. Or at the first sign of a cold stupid doctors prescribe antibiotics. Then the stupid food companies stick antibiotics in everything. Therefore the bacteria grow a resistance to the antibiotics and pass their resistance down. These things multiply with binary fission they just replicate themselves over and over again they are little cloning machines. It only takes one bacteria to be resistant. Some bacteria can multiply 100 fold in a matter of hours. Soon we will be back to pre war situations and if you get an infection it has to be removed surgically or you are left to die. who are you trying to blame? humans killing themselves or the bacteria for killing the human?p.s i like that , above of you avatar picture "full of wisdumb'' Edited March 5, 2013 by WhyDontYouBeliEveMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Merton Posted March 5, 2013 #5 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Failure to finish a course of antibiotics is a small part of the problem. The plain fact is that when we use any sort of antibiotic or antiviral, the bugs attacked will evolve defenses. This is just simply inevitable, and is a sort of ongoing arms race between us and the bugs. What can we do to help? Well, we can finish a course of antibiotics. We can also greatly improve our hygienic practices -- especially regarding hand washing and fingernails. Then there is coughing. What can I say about that? These are all peripheral and can be overdone, but they do help. Of course one thing is safe sex, where so far we have been losing the arms race, although making some progress. It may be that vaccinations against almost everything will one day be found, and we can then depend on our bodies to fight diseases rather than pharmaceuticals. That will be a huge advance, but in the meantime we need to support the continued development of more antibiotics and so on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocketgirl Posted March 5, 2013 #6 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Frank already said a little about what I was going to say about being clean. So I will just add this, I read an article a while ago about how hospitals are germ cities, they aren't being cleaned like they should. If hospitals and other places like schools were to disinfectant then that would help cut down on these superbugs and other illnesses that are going around. Plus, if people were to stay away from other people when they are sick that would also help too. No one wants to share your germs if you are sick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean6 Posted March 6, 2013 Author #7 Share Posted March 6, 2013 (edited) keep an eye on this one its all over the news now http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/05/superbugs-infections-hospitals/1965133/ Edited March 6, 2013 by sean6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Merton Posted March 6, 2013 #8 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Oh I've had a dozen forwards of news stories about this already from acquaintances in the States. Probably most of us have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen in the North Posted March 6, 2013 #9 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Failure to finish a course of antibiotics is a small part of the problem. The plain fact is that when we use any sort of antibiotic or antiviral, the bugs attacked will evolve defenses. This is just simply inevitable, and is a sort of ongoing arms race between us and the bugs. What can we do to help? Well, we can finish a course of antibiotics. We can also greatly improve our hygienic practices -- especially regarding hand washing and fingernails. Then there is coughing. What can I say about that? These are all peripheral and can be overdone, but they do help. Of course one thing is safe sex, where so far we have been losing the arms race, although making some progress. It may be that vaccinations against almost everything will one day be found, and we can then depend on our bodies to fight diseases rather than pharmaceuticals. That will be a huge advance, but in the meantime we need to support the continued development of more antibiotics and so on. The thing is, this is an old, old war. The fungi that originally made the antibiotic didn't do it for fun, and the bacteria have millions of years on us at developing resistance mechanisms against antimicrobials. We're just making the problem a whole lot worse, making the antibiotics so widespread that the little buggers that do have the genes for resistance suddenly get their chance to shine. Fave piece of advice on antibiotics: don't bully your GP into giving you them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babe Ruth Posted March 7, 2013 #10 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Guns, Germs and Steel, observed Jared Diamond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean6 Posted March 11, 2013 Author #11 Share Posted March 11, 2013 (edited) talk about the superbugs has been in the news every day so far, pray we dont get sick. http://www.theatlant...e-charts/62962/ [media=] [/media] wake up Edited March 11, 2013 by sean6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellar Posted March 11, 2013 #12 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Wake up? What are you talking about? Who's asleep, and in what regard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orcseeker Posted March 11, 2013 #13 Share Posted March 11, 2013 It is the antibiotics that are making them stronger. Don't take any unless you really have to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean6 Posted March 29, 2013 Author #14 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Immigrants could cause a superbug apocalypse, scientists warn Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/03/28/immigrants-could-cause-superbug-apocalypse-scientists-warn/#ixzz2Ou4azkTm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean6 Posted March 31, 2013 Author #15 Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) New strain of bird flu which has never been seen in humans before kills two people in China Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2P8a6CHu2 Edited March 31, 2013 by sean6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awest Posted March 31, 2013 #16 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Don't forget the new SARS. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/18/health/coronavirus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean6 Posted April 4, 2013 Author #17 Share Posted April 4, 2013 CDC to prepare bird flu vaccine just in case http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/04/17603189-cdc-to-prepare-bird-flu-vaccine-just-in-case?lite?ocid=twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean6 Posted April 24, 2013 Author #18 Share Posted April 24, 2013 update http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/04/24/new-bird-strain-is-one-most-lethal-flu-viruses-who-says/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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