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October 23, 2013, 5:44 pm ET · by Emma Schwartz and Rick YoungThe veteran drug researcher featured in “Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria” passed away last weekend.
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I read an article on the end of being able to use antibiotics. As in we are now doomed. Superbugs are in our near future and some of the new strains of flu we are making by choosing to eat some of the crap they sell in our supermarkets. I know it's a recession and you have to go for the cheaper cuts of antibiotic laden meat. I'm there too. The farming methods are quite frankly disgusting. Really bad. I'm no expert but the next big die off in terms of a pandemic could come from the way some poultry and swine are raised. According to the article, there wasn't enough money in developing new medicine so we're screwed. That's it , last one out, turn out the lights. Humanity, it was an interesting idea while it lasted. Is there anyone out there who really believes that someone doesn't have enough money to have developed new and effective medicine for this foreseeable and long predicted outcome. I'm going to go with LIE, as in it's a lie that there is no new kind of medicine to prevent a large die off in the world's population due to superbugs. Someone is holding out on us.
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Permalink Reply by LoveLife&Laughter on
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Too true. Also, the bees are dying and global warming is just starting to drown our coastlines.
Before that we were afraid of Africanized bees and the start of the next ice age lol...
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Permalink Reply by exedir on
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Life on the grassy knoll always seems to have fresh breezes. As to whether the bugs will beat us, well, they have been around for billions where we aren't even a million years, old, yet.
And yes, it is Darwin who is responsible, survival of the fittest sort of thing, who can adapt first and fastest to changing environments. And as to antibiotics we have done this to ourselves, creating the super bug faster than we can kill it as bacteria, as all bacteria does. both harmful and non-harmful, evolve defenses against our weapons.
Penicillin was developed in 1928 as a result of a unanticipated science experiment of Alexander Fleming and which was moved into mass production as the first, great antibiotic for treatment. And then, over prescribed and overused as a palliative for almost every illness because we could, over prescribe and overuse and make a good profit.
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Buts as you posted, most people are not intentionally over-medicated, fruits, vegetables, and cows are.
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Permalink Reply by ProblemAgain on
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from PBS and Frontline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacte...
October 22, 2013Hunting the Nightmare BacteriaFRONTLINE investigates the rise of deadly drug-resistant bacteria. (53:41)
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Who’s Tracking the “Nightmare Bacteria”?
October 22, 2013, 9:31 pm ET · by Emma Schwartz
It seems like a basic question: How many people get these hard to treat infections each year and where do they occur? But there’s no easy answer.
Who’s Trying to Fix the Pipeline Problem?
October 22, 2013, 9:31 pm ET · by Emma Schwartz
The problem is clear: there aren’t enough new antibiotics. The question is why aren’t more pharmaceutical companies filling the gap — and what’s being done to try to reverse this trend?
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The Pfizer executive on why the company has shifted away from developing antibiotics.
Dr. John Rex: The Drug Pipeline Is “Very, Very Thin”
October 22, 2013, 9:29 pm ET
The AstraZeneca executive on the business of antibiotics, and what his company is doing to address the lack of drugs in the pipeline.
Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
October 22, 2013, 9:29 pm ET
The CDC doctor says we need to create a new model to fight drug resistance, joining public and private funding with leadership at local levels.
Ramanan Laxminarayan: The Global Reach of Resistance
October 22, 2013, 9:29 pm ET
The policy chief on why the U.S. lags behind other nations in the race against this worldwide problem.
Dr. Brad Spellberg: Antibiotic Resistance Is “Everyone’s Fault”
October 22, 2013, 9:28 pm ET
The infectious disease expert says antibiotics have made us complacent about this threat.
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Further resources on the superbug problem, and what we are — or aren’t — doing to stop it.
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Permalink Reply by Merry on
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It's extremely hard for me to believe that no one is putting money into solving a problem as big as this one. It's easy for me to believe that some powers that be would support a die off to slow down population growth.
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Lots are, money that is...but it harder to do...the bugs have a hard shell, or now have a hard shell, tougher to break into to kill the bug...and yes, it is complicated, requiring millions in research and time to make something happen instead of just by happenstance looking into a petri dish, and seeing something...
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You mean we can't just pray it away like those guys do the gay?
Since when did they start listening to science or any facts in let's say...the last 6,000 years?
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