[QUOTE][url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/05/26/the-superbug-that-doctors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/[/url][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]
Well, The Human race was nice while it lasted. It's time for giant chicken people.
When can we put our consciousness and memories in a cyborg bodies?
[URL="http://http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/everybody-be-cool-a-nightmare-superbug-has-not-heralded-the-apocalypse-yet/"]Ars Technica article on why this is bad reporting.[/URL]
[QUOTE=TheSoupNazi;50411155]FUCK.[/QUOTE]
Help us.
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Any disease that does stuff to the brain is disgusting. Bacterial meningitis sucks and mad cow disease is terrifying.
[QUOTE=OmniConsUme;50411174][URL="http://http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/everybody-be-cool-a-nightmare-superbug-has-not-heralded-the-apocalypse-yet/"]Ars Technica article on why this is bad reporting.[/URL][/QUOTE]
For people who don't want to bother reading the article:
[quote]First, the “first” bit. The first line of the Post’s article states: “For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort.”
Nope—this isn’t even close to true. This is absolutely not the first time a person in the US has been found with a bacteria resistant to a last-resort antibiotic. There are several last-resort antibiotics, and many bacteria over the years have shown up with resistance to them—including colistin.
For instance, way back in 1991, a hospital in Brooklyn suffered an outbreak of bacteria resistant to vancomycin, a last-resort antibiotic. In 2009, several Detroit medical centers suffered an outbreak of bacteria that were resistant to both colistin and carbapenem—another last resort antibiotic. And not even the National Institutes of Health has been immune to bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotics. In 2011, an outbreak of carbapenem-resistant bacteria at the NIH’s clinic sickened 18, killing 11.
The only real first in this case is that it’s the first time mcr-1-based colistin resistance has shown up in a US patient.
While, again, this isn’t exactly good news, it’s not catastrophic. There are several last-resort antibiotics, and doctors can try different combinations and strengths of prescriptions before an infection may be deemed untreatable.[/quote]
Basically, this isn't something we want to ignore, but Washington Post is making this a bigger issue than it is.
Don't fall for shitty reporting trying to blow up issues for page views, and don't fall into the sensationalistic "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!" garbage. It's a sign of a growing problem, but the apocalypse isn't around the corner.
[QUOTE=Exploders;50411159]When can we put our consciousness and memories in a cyborg bodies?[/QUOTE]
According to this organization, hopefully by [URL="http://gf2045.com/"]2045[/URL]
[QUOTE=hoodoo456;50411196]For people who don't want to bother reading the article:
Basically, this isn't something we want to ignore, but Washington Post is making this a bigger issue than it is.
Don't fall for shitty reporting trying to blow up issues for page views, and don't fall into the sensationalistic "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!" garbage. It's a sign of a growing problem, but the apocalypse isn't around the corner.[/QUOTE]
We already have technical solutions, we need to figure out a good way of dispersing them.
Let's also no forget about the promising teixobactin antibiotic class that was discovered last year.
[QUOTE=hoodoo456;50411196]For people who don't want to bother reading the article:
Basically, this isn't something we want to ignore, but Washington Post is making this a bigger issue than it is.
Don't fall for shitty reporting trying to blow up issues for page views, and don't fall into the sensationalistic "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!" garbage. It's a sign of a growing problem, but the apocalypse isn't around the corner.[/QUOTE]
we're all gonna die
Bacteriophage investment when?
RIP Human race.
I was hoping this would be an article about a beetle that can crush steel and devour a man in minutes and once again I am disappointed
So are there any alternatives whenever most antibiotics become useless?
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;50412284]So are there any alternatives whenever most antibiotics become useless?[/QUOTE]
An Exterminatus
In all seriousness, Bacteriophages seem to be our best bet
[QUOTE=Exploders;50411159]When can we put our consciousness and memories in a cyborg bodies?[/QUOTE]
Thats for wimps!
You know how I cure the flu?
I WAIT IT OUT! YEAAAH
[QUOTE=Exploders;50411159]When can we put our consciousness and memories in a cyborg bodies?[/QUOTE]
What's the point, it would just be a copy.
What we need are isolated brain jars maintained by nanomachines.
[QUOTE=hoodoo456;50411196]For people who don't want to bother reading the article:
Basically, this isn't something we want to ignore, but Washington Post is making this a bigger issue than it is.
Don't fall for shitty reporting trying to blow up issues for page views, and don't fall into the sensationalistic "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!" garbage. It's a sign of a growing problem, but the apocalypse isn't around the corner.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for posting this, because the link wouldn't even open up for me.
I always knew vampires would come from Pennsylvania
Holee shit! a "super deadly virus thing" of the month has once again come to media's attention, so we can have the rest of next month be about how SUPER DEADLY it is, when it barely affect America.
Quick! To my shelter full of Mei porn and graham crackers!
Come on, I hear this so much it's not even scary to me anymore.
It is of course really worrisome [sp]contributing to my constant anxiety[/sp], but really, this could be seen coming, so no one's really that surprised - then again, I can be wrong, lot of people live under rocks.
But well, here's hoping that alternatives can function well enough - and that we don't overuse them.
[QUOTE=James xX;50411270]Let's also no forget about the promising teixobactin antibiotic class that was discovered last year.[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately not active against gram-negative bacteria.
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