The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.

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Don't worry in two months it will all be forgotten...more sensational news to make $$$

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/

For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could mean "the end of the road" for antibiotics.
The antibiotic-resistant strain was found last month in the urine of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Defense Department researchers determined that she carried a strain of E. coli resistant to the antibiotic colistin, according to a study published Thursday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. The authors wrote that the discovery "heralds the emergence of a truly pan-drug resistant bacteria."
 
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This is a real problem.

Antibiotics and antibacterial agents are used in all sorts of industries in the US. People wash their hands with anti-bac soap. The more the bacteria are exposed to this, the higher the risk they mutate to become resistant to the antibacterial agents. The same goes for antibiotics, which are often prescribed in the US for conditions which do not require or respond to antibiotics: viral fevers, common colds, influenza, to name a few.

The issue is: we only have so many kinds of antibiotics that are safe for human use and human consumption. The more we use them needlessly, the faster different bacteria become resistant to them. Once bacteria have become resistant to all our fsafe-for-consumption antibiotics, then what do we do?

So it's important to not use antibiotics needlessly, and to buy meat and other foods which are guaranteed not to have been exposed to any antibiotics. It's also important to stop farmers from constantly dosing their cows, sheep and pigs as well, for the same reasons.

Better a few lambs get foot-and-mouth disease, than humans be totally defenceless against our own bacterial diseases.

Imagine a world where bacterial meningitis is untreatable; where a stapholococcus infection has a higher than 50% mortaloty rate; where instead of taking some antibiotics for your conjunctivitis you risk losing your eye because the antibiotics no longer work. That's what happens if people keep using antibiotics so needlessly and to such an extent as currently.
 
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I admit I am confused. I first read about these super-bacteria about 10 years ago. I met someone on-line who got MSRA and was dying. She died a month later.

Then my father went into the heart unit of our local hospital, after a cardiac event in 2011. Apparently his room mate had VRE and my father caught it. There was nothing they could do, except isolate my dad, which was another nail in his coffin. He didn't die of VRE, but congestive heart failure.

I suppose the more we use antibiotics, the more this is going to happen to different types of bacteria. Still, I am glad for antibiotics, or I would have died many times, including when I was a baby.

I think we need to be more viligant and not use antibacterial soaps which do not make us more clean, but do select for the most resistant bacteria, which is why hospitals are the worst places to catch these things.