Got MSRA?
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
The Way We Live Now Our Decrepit Food Factories
NY Times Magazine
The first story is about MRSA, the very scary antibiotic-resistant
strain of Staphylococcus bacteria that is now killing more Americans
each year than AIDS — 100,000 infections leading to 19,000 deaths in
2005, according to estimates in The Journal of the American Medical
Association. For years now, drug-resistant staph infections have been a
problem in hospitals, where the heavy use of antibiotics can create
resistant strains of bacteria. It’s Evolution 101: the drugs kill off
all but the tiny handful of microbes that, by dint of a chance
mutation, possess genes allowing them to withstand the onslaught; these hardy
survivors then get to work building a drug-resistant superrace.
The methicillin-resistant staph that first emerged in hospitals as early as
the 1960s posed a threat mostly to elderly patients. But a new and even
more virulent strain — called “community-acquired MRSA” — is
now killing young and otherwise healthy people who have not set foot in a hospital.
No one is yet sure how or where this strain evolved, but it is
sufficiently different from the hospital-bred strains to have some
researchers looking elsewhere for its origin, to another environment
where the heavy use of antibiotics is selecting for the evolution of a
lethal new microbe: the concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO.
Armed Forces 'superbug' menaces UK
The UK, the United States and Canada are facing growing fears over a drug-resistant 'superbug' being brought back by wounded soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq that threatens to contaminate civilian hospitals.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
- The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle has just fit perfectly into place. Click.
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- Monsanto dumped their genetically engineered versions of four newly-created species of bacteria into European sewer systems. What arrogance. What a complete disregard for human kind. They gave birth to and then released their monster onto this world. First Europe. Now, America. A newly-published study confirms the European beginning of America's growing MRSA epidemic.
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- The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has published the shocking results of an investigation suggesting that the MRSA infections now sickening and killing Americans began in Europe, just as I predicted many years ago.
The Way We Live Now Our Decrepit Food Factories
NY Times Magazine
The first story is about MRSA, the very scary antibiotic-resistant
strain of Staphylococcus bacteria that is now killing more Americans
each year than AIDS — 100,000 infections leading to 19,000 deaths in
2005, according to estimates in The Journal of the American Medical
Association. For years now, drug-resistant staph infections have been a
problem in hospitals, where the heavy use of antibiotics can create
resistant strains of bacteria. It’s Evolution 101: the drugs kill off
all but the tiny handful of microbes that, by dint of a chance
mutation, possess genes allowing them to withstand the onslaught; these hardy
survivors then get to work building a drug-resistant superrace.
The methicillin-resistant staph that first emerged in hospitals as early as
the 1960s posed a threat mostly to elderly patients. But a new and even
more virulent strain — called “community-acquired MRSA” — is
now killing young and otherwise healthy people who have not set foot in a hospital.
No one is yet sure how or where this strain evolved, but it is
sufficiently different from the hospital-bred strains to have some
researchers looking elsewhere for its origin, to another environment
where the heavy use of antibiotics is selecting for the evolution of a
lethal new microbe: the concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO.
Armed Forces 'superbug' menaces UK
The UK, the United States and Canada are facing growing fears over a drug-resistant 'superbug' being brought back by wounded soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq that threatens to contaminate civilian hospitals.
The intensified concern comes amid sharply rising infection rates in the US and fresh worries in Canada that the bug could be imported into its civilian healthcare system. Military health officials who have studied the bacterium in Afghanistan believe the infection of wounded British soldiers in field hospitals there is probably inevitable.
