A Bacterium resistant to every single antibiotic known has been found in New Zealand, resulting in o
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[QUOTE=Katatonic717;42964531]I'm not too worried about this. Medical science always finds a way. Even if this, or something similar, fucks me up, I know that the next generation will see new technology that will eliminate what killed me. I may die, but humanity will live on.
There is, read some of the above posts.[/QUOTE]
1x bad reading
[QUOTE=PredGD;42963848]madagascar has closed it's borders[/QUOTE]
i never get the Madagascar reference :c
[QUOTE=autodesknoob;42964557]i never get the Madagascar reference :c[/QUOTE]
pandemic flash game series
[QUOTE=autodesknoob;42964557]i never get the Madagascar reference :c[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.addictinggames.com/strategy-games/pandemic2.jsp"]Play this[/URL] - you'll see why, soon enough.
[QUOTE=autodesknoob;42964557]i never get the Madagascar reference :c[/QUOTE]
play some pandemic nigga
[QUOTE=autodesknoob;42964557]i never get the Madagascar reference :c[/QUOTE]
Reference to a flash game where you try to design a disease that kills everyone.
The joke is that madagascar only has a single port which you can access it by, and they're incredibly twitchy about closing it. Most games end with madagascar untouched because it's impossible to get to madagascar after its port has closed.
[url]http://www.kongregate.com/games/darkrealmstudios/pandemic-2[/url]
[QUOTE=froztshock;42964584]Reference to a flash game where you try to design a disease that kills everyone.
The joke is that madagascar only has a single port which you can access it by, and they're incredibly twitchy about closing it. Most games end with madagascar untouched because it's impossible to get to madagascar after its port has closed.
[URL]http://www.kongregate.com/games/darkrealmstudios/pandemic-2[/URL][/QUOTE]
Fuck that, even if you [I]start[/I] on Madagascar, you still won't win for some stupid reason or the other, most of the time.
Asstastic was the best virus I ever fucking designed, it should have [B][I]killed[/I][/B]!
Well, there was something a while ago about making a strain of HIV destroy the drug resistant bacteria.
[QUOTE=BCell;42963975]I like to see it whether it can survive acid and fire. It may be resisitant to drugs but when it comes to acid or fire, no organism can survive being placed in high heat or super corrosive acids.[/QUOTE]
Hey Timmy I'm afraid you're sick buddy, but don't worry we've got just the thing! Just step into this bathtub here...
[QUOTE=BCell;42963975]I like to see it whether it can survive acid and fire. It may be resisitant to drugs but when it comes to acid or fire, no organism can survive being placed in high heat or super corrosive acids.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png[/img]
[QUOTE=bravehat;42964385]Sadly neither are people.[/QUOTE]
Wait what? Those poor vietnamese we were just trying to cure the flu outbreak...
The only logical thing to do is firebomb all of New Zealand.
[QUOTE=snookypookums;42964575][URL="http://www.addictinggames.com/strategy-games/pandemic2.jsp"]Play this[/URL] - you'll see why, soon enough.[/QUOTE]
I tried it.
Madagascar was the only place I got.
-snip it's already been mentioned
Well, to the Greenland I go. Because greenland is never infected.
EVER.
Well it's been a good run, let's get some spaceships built and we can go live somewhere else but really far apart so we can't contaminate each other.
fuck
This is what you get sheep forsaken by big pharma they will let you die try learning real medicine.
Let's hope it hasn't mysteriously infected all of humanity and every single instance of it all mutates at the exact same time from nothing to instant fatality!
This is what we get for not controlling antibiotics!
I seriously worry about shit like this. We think we are so in control...It starts with one.
[QUOTE=snookypookums;42963837][IMG]http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/11/6268871099_f5b44d24e2_o-660x562.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Holy shit it's the multi-eyed bacterium Spider
I don't quite get the whole 'losing antibiotics' thing. I mean, I understand that some bacteria are obviously evolving to counter our antibiotics, but now this one is out and is resistant to everything, that doesn't mean that all antibiotics suddenly stopped being worth a single shit for everything else. Sure, they'll become less effective as more shit gets resistant, but it's not like "Whelp, superbug evolved; antibiotics are over. Time to go back to blood-letting, eye of newt and leeches!"
[QUOTE=Sir Drone;42965386]Holy shit it's the multi-eyed bacterium Spider[/QUOTE]
it's a white shoggoth
[QUOTE=Riller;42965404]I don't quite get the whole 'losing antibiotics' thing. I mean, I understand that some bacteria are obviously evolving to counter our antibiotics, but now this one is out and is resistant to everything, that doesn't mean that all antibiotics suddenly stopped being worth a single shit for everything else. Sure, they'll become less effective as more shit gets resistant, but it's not like "Whelp, superbug evolved; antibiotics are over. Time to go back to blood-letting, eye of newt and leeches!"[/QUOTE]
Technically, this is quite true, but where one superbug arrives, more will follow. Each superbug that gets discovered after evolution quantifiably leads to more trouble for the healthcare sector in terms of PR, R&D, DALYs and QALYs, and more burden in terms of health care costs. Medical care is already prohibitively expensive as it is in the matter of treating some diseases, such as HIV, Hepatitis, SSIs of any class, and so forth. The costs it will take to research new antibiotics these days aren't exactly what you'd call cheap, and the R&D costs will be added on to the purchase price of the new drugs by pharmaceutical companies, therefore pushing healthcare, in that situation, further out of reach for whoever may be infected by said superbugs.
Remember that bacteria, too, can exchange genetic material with one another. If this superbug finds an appropriate member of its type (or near relation thereof) it can and will pass its capability for resistance down to the next generation. And considering how fast they can reproduce, that's not exactly what you'd call reassuring in the long term.
..Vaccines still exist, y'know.
Also the bacteria would still die to extreme heat.
Also there's usually bacterias that can fuck up bacterias that are resistant to multiple things.
You can't really test the reaction on everything.
[QUOTE=Riller;42965404]I don't quite get the whole 'losing antibiotics' thing. I mean, I understand that some bacteria are obviously evolving to counter our antibiotics, but now this one is out and is resistant to everything, that doesn't mean that all antibiotics suddenly stopped being worth a single shit for everything else. Sure, they'll become less effective as more shit gets resistant, but it's not like "Whelp, superbug evolved; antibiotics are over. Time to go back to blood-letting, eye of newt and leeches!"[/QUOTE]
Well, there is also that antibiotic resistant bacterias have existed since bacterias existed.
Want to know why? Because bacterias made antibiotics to kill other bacterias long 'fore we even existed. Of course there's bound to be some that evolved to be resistant against the damned thing if they've had it for literally millions of years.
Resistant bacterias aren't a new thing.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;42965458]Technically, this is quite true, but where one superbug arrives, more will follow. Each superbug that gets discovered after evolution quantifiably leads to more trouble for the healthcare sector in terms of PR, R&D, DALYs and QALYs, and more burden in terms of health care costs. Medical care is already prohibitively expensive as it is in the matter of treating some diseases, such as HIV, Hepatitis, SSIs of any class, and so forth. The costs it will take to research new antibiotics these days aren't exactly what you'd call cheap, and the R&D costs will be added on to the purchase price of the new drugs by pharmaceutical companies, therefore pushing healthcare, in that situation, further out of reach for whoever may be infected by said superbugs.
Remember that bacteria, too, can exchange genetic material with one another. If this superbug finds an appropriate member of its type (or near relation thereof) it can and will pass its capability for resistance down to the next generation. And considering how fast they can reproduce, that's not exactly what you'd call reassuring in the long term.[/QUOTE]
Well, of course it's not good for us, but it's not like from this day forth, all bugs are superbugs and antibiotics are less effective than a homeopathic placebo herb in all possible uses; which is the vibe a lot of articles on the subject give off. They all go "Well, pack up heart surgery, trauma treatment and cancer research and bin it. Superbugs are here, the dream is over" when it's really more a case of "Oh. Superbugs. Guess we better see about finding a solution to those [I]bug[/I]gers. Get it? Super[I]bug[/I], [I]bug[/I]gers? Heh."
[QUOTE=Riller;42965404]I don't quite get the whole 'losing antibiotics' thing. I mean, I understand that some bacteria are obviously evolving to counter our antibiotics, but now this one is out and is resistant to everything, that doesn't mean that all antibiotics suddenly stopped being worth a single shit for everything else. Sure, they'll become less effective as more shit gets resistant, but it's not like "Whelp, superbug evolved; antibiotics are over. Time to go back to blood-letting, eye of newt and leeches!"[/QUOTE]
The problem isn't that there's now a totally resistant bacterium, the problem is that everything is very rapidly gaining these sorts of resistances.
Consider it like this, if you go into hospital for chemo then you'll end up with a weakened immune system then there's a pretty good chance that you're gonna pick something else up and if it ends up being one of those drug resistant strains of anything then it is going to be a major issue.
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;42963890]I bet it isn't resistant to burning napalm[/QUOTE]
Watch this shit be transfigured from the back of a cockroach and deny any method of killing it.
nuke new zealand just to be safe
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