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10-31-2007 7:03 AM488 views
wildcat says:
"Anyone who doesn't believe in evolution just has to look at MRSA," Blaser said of the microbe's growing arsenal of drug resistance.
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10-31-2007 9:11 AM
tabsey
It doesn't count for people who have managed to stay anti biotic free. The bugs have developed the immunity.
10-31-2007 10:51 AM
michaelll
deadly microbes that can resist drugs designed to wipe them out
These drugs were designed to wipe out the predecessors of the so called superbugs, but the over use of such drugs has directly led to the bugs becoming resistant.

We need to step back where we can and let our bodies do what they are designed to do , defend us against bugs.

As was pointed out in the clip it was the elderly who succumbed to the "superbug, that being the case then it should follow that the treatment of routine type bugs should be more restricted to the age groups that are, due to their age, less able to defend themselves.

If we continue down the same road of over use of anti -biotics then w...
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10-31-2007 5:50 PM
Jorjor
Our society is so obsessed about sanitizing (for example, my local supermarket has a wipe dispenser at the entrance so people can swab down the shopping cart handles) that children's immune systems never get a chance to develop as they should. Unnecessary overuse of antibiotics (e.g. in livestock) makes it worse. Improper disposal of unused pharmaceuticals puts drugs in the environment - most urban water supplies have detectible levels of antidepressants and hormones.
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