YAHOO: Perilous Bug Is Creeping Onto the Streets

[BigBearJohn]

Perilous Bug Is Creeping Onto the Streets

Drug-resistant staph infections, once largely confined to hospitals, are far more common in the general population than previously thought, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The latest study, conducted by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several other institutions, confirmed that the organism was now circulating widely in the general population.

In previous research, the drug-resistant strain was found to cause painful skin lesions that resembled infected spider bites, a deadly lung disease known as necrotizing pneumonia, and toxic-shock syndrome — a type of blood poisoning that can be fatal.


But doctors outside of hospitals typically don't look for drug-resistant staph, and therefore don't order lab tests to verify the strain. Instead, they routinely prescribe ineffective antibiotics, sometimes leading to more severe illnesses and even deaths.

Link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=5&u=/latimests/20050407/ts_latimes/perilousbugiscreepingontothestreets

[BurtWorm]

1. Okay, now I'm getting scared.

:scared:

[Warpy]

4. Good. You need to be.

The good news is that bacitracin is still effective for infected cuts. The bad news is that the bugs are fighting back, and it's not going to be effective too much longer.

The worst news of all is that drug company research is dedicated to lifestyle drugs, not antibiotics. I have recently read that there are fourteen limp dick drugs in the works, but no new antibiotics.

The reason is obvious. Lifestyle drugs are taken for weeks, months, or years. Antibiotics are typically taken for a week or two and then not taken for long periods of time. There is simply not enough money in curing actual illness.

Even the NIH grants have been infected with the need to produce drugs to be taken long term. The funding for research into antibiotics is simply not there, although some bacteriophage research is going on.

[BurtWorm]

6. Cialis won't help?

:scared:

[BrklynLiberal]

2. There was post on DU about this as long ago as Feb 7th.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3441514&mesg_id=3441514

[Mutley]

3. great...

like i wasn't worried enough about REGULAR staph infections.....

[libhill]

5. Sounds like the Government has been working overtime -

Drug resistant staph, West Nile virus, Mad Cow Disease, SARS, the mysterious deaths and disappearances of microbiologists all over the world - call me a tinfoil hatter, but there's something very "rotten in Denmark". Those bizzaro bastards are up to something, that's as plain as the nose on your face.

[CrispyQ]

13. What's up with

"the mysterious deaths and disappearances of microbiologists all over the world" ???? Do you have a link for that?

Here's some out there but interesting reading:

http://fixco1.com/bushplan.html

snip...

As a result I have developed a theory that I call "The Republican's Secret Sinister Plan" and I have come up with thirteen stages that I believe are being followed by Bush and the Republicans in Congress. Following are the thirteen stages of "The Republican's Secret Sinister Plan" with a special note about a critical approaching stage:

Stage one is controlling the members of their own Republican Party.

Stage two is infiltrating, influencing, and manipulating the members of the Democratic Party.

Stage three is using the media to confuse and manipulate the American people to gain their support (votes).

Stage four is to monopolize and build existing wealth concentrations by shifting the tax burden from investors to workers, de-regulating businesses, and passing free trade deals.

Stage five is weaken the power of the federal government by selling off it's assets, limit it's revenues, and privatize it's operations.

Stage six is to weaken and ultimately dismantle the existing social safety net programs like Social Security, Medicare, Welfare, the minimum wage, the forty hour work week, unemployment benefits, etc.

Stage seven is to rig elections so they their candidate always wins despite how the American people really vote.

Stage eight is to weaken the value of the U.S. currency.

Stage nine, this is the approaching critical stage, is to bankrupt the federal and state governments so that their assets can be acquired for pennies on the dollar.

Stage ten is to divide the population of America between the "haves" (10%) and the "have-nots" (90%) and drive the "have-nots" out of America using any means necessary.

Stage eleven is to reduce the population of the earth by 90% in an effort to limit global warming and to conserve earth's limited resources.

Stage twelve is to replace human workers with smart robot workers.

Stage thirteen is to throw a big party for the 10% of the population that gets to live in the "New World Order".

In order for this plan to succeed the America people must be keep in the dark about the true face of the Republican Party until the critical bankrupt stage, stage nine, has been completed. Once the American government assets are gone the American people will have lost their democracy and there is no way to gain it back.

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[libhill]

16. I believe

They have pretty well accomplished most of these already - but it starts getting a little too wild at phase 12 - even for tinfoil hatter like myself -:)

[CrispyQ]

18. Yeah, they'll keep enough of us around to clean their toilets . . .

Then they'll have that step 13 party.

I would love to time travel to 100 years in the future & read what history says about 2000-2008.

[mattclearing]

7. Link? n/t

[BigBearJohn]

8. oops (sorry)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=5&u=/latimests/20050407/ts_latimes/perilousbugiscreepingontothestreets

[redqueen]

9. My favorite part... as Warpy said above - it's all about $$$$

"The problem is we are not developing new antibiotics as fast as we used to because there are very few monetary incentives for pharmaceutical companies to do that," Miller said. "The bugs are about two steps ahead of us."

[hatrack]

11. Let's be bluntly honest about what drug companies really want

Do they want something to cure malaria, bilharzia, Guinea worm or river blindness? Do they want to invest hundreds of millions in drugs that will be taken only by the world's poor, and only then with money provided by charities, with such drugs likely made available at deep discounts?

No. The drug companies dreams are as follows: any and all drugs that will help wealthy old people look young, grow hair or fuck.

Simple as that.

[redqueen]

14. Too true...

I love hearing idiot republicans defend big pharma... saves me time by immediately demonstrating that they're not worth wasting time on.

[Jesus Saves]

10. So what do you do to avoid getting a staph infection?

[Horse with no Name]

21. Wash your hands frequently with soap and water

Carry Purel in your pocket or purse.
Everytime you touch a common surface, use it. This includes money. Money is nasty.
Avoid shaking hands with people--I won't. You don't know where someones hands have been.
Everytime you have a chance to wash your hands, do it.
When you get home, take off your shoes outside, and remove your clothes as quick as possible and put on clean clothes in your home. This keeps the germs out of your home.
I also keep a roll of Clorox wipes in my purse. I do a quick wipe on the handles of the shopping carts because I'm not going to expose my 2-year old granddaughter to someone else's germs when she rides in the basket.
Main thing is to be aware and wash your hands.
I'm a nurse and probably take it a little too far, but the problem goes much deeper than people not taking prescribed antibiotics. It goes to people not getting adequate treatment in the hospitals for it.
They send people home with MRSA that they will not let in common patients areas at the hospital. In a hospital they have to have 3 cultures that come back negative before they are considered cured, and with people in and out of the hospital, that just isn't possible.
It also has to do with people who cannot afford to go to the hospital or doctor--they can become carriers of MRSA if it colonizes.
You just have to be careful.

[SpaceBuddy008]

12. Yahoo ! ImageSearch re: PeriloUs bug =....

love yahoo email easy text editor and all

how ? and in what scientific matter does it 'creep' ???

[callous taoboy]

15. My brother works at a grocery store-

He knicked his thumb knuckle on a pallet, washed it with soap and water, got home, put neosporin on it and went to bed. He woke up with a hand as swollen as a grapefruit with red streaks going up his forearm. They put him on antibiotic IV at the emergency room and said that what he got into was really bad.

[dweller]

17. red streaks

indicative of 'blood poisoning' i believe.
He's okay now?

dp

[callous taoboy]

20. Definitely blood poisoning-

It was very, very serious. He is o.k. now, thanks.

[SpaceBuddy008]

19. OH ! CreePing onto the streets? .....where the protesters gather

Hello, this is Uncle Sam calling, for your protection we insist you stay in your homes today...

yeah the bug is on the streets it can't get you in your homes

Stay home. we are here to protect you. everything is under control.

Nobody Move... Nobody gets hurt

and it is such a perilous? bug

perilous. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Full of or involving peril; dangerous. peril·ous·ly -ADVERBperil·ous·ness -NOUN...

1) peril. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Exposure to the risk of harm or loss. 2. Something that endangers or involves risk. Inflected forms: per·iled also per·illed, per·il·ing, per·il·ling, per·ils, per·ils...

risky to protest,...you know, you creeps
Your, Either With........or.....,

and THIS 'bug' is creeping right so that curious phrasing must mean it is some type of worm or snake,....no?

my haven't we entered.....



lights out August 14th 2003

did not alexander solzhenitsen 'dissident' write book August 1914?

...and just heard this today, why i posted this is the government calling YOU
on news heard exPat in Italy say the 'authorites' were calling people on their cellular damage phones and telling them to stay inside, stay home avoid areas

[libhill]

22. Just wrap yourself in

Duct tape - isn't that the Bushco cure all?