Superbacteria reaches America, and not a beep from anybody.

[Rod1]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tors-have-been-dreading-just-reached-the-u-s/

Basically a variant of E. coli that its immune to all antibiotics known to man. Created of course by the blatant abuse of antibiotics by the farm industry. I found it amazing that nobody is talking about it, but they made such a huge fuss from Ebola.

A little background on the bacteria.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/21/mcr-gene-colistin/

Opinions?

 

[Michaelangelo]

 

[Deleted member 159002]

I heard about our antibiotic problem on the radio today.

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/31/48018...-antibiotic-resistance-in-the-washington-post

Prizes might be a good idea. I personally hate using antibiotics, but I'm not sure many people with soar throats or other non-serious illnesses are going to forgo them...

 

[Deleted member 457759]

Don't talk about liberals that way.

 

[frandie2b]

Guess the superbacteria's religion

 

[El Chimpo]

if we die, we die

 

[Rygu]

This is actually a serious issue. I guess in order to gain any real media attention a black person or a muslim needs to be discriminated against. Who cares about a lowly uncurable bacteria.

 

[Dayman1984]

It's a very serious issue, and I agree that the people panicking about Ebola should be much more concerned about this. There may come a day in the next fifteen years where surgery is limited to a last resort due to risk of incurable infection, and a simple scrape on the knee will result in death. It's not an exaggeration; unless we catch up to these evolving bacteria with new drugs, we may enter a true post-antibiotic era.

 

[Rod1]

It's a very serious issue, and I agree that the people panicking about Ebola should be much more concerned about this. There may come a day in the next fifteen years where surgery is limited to a last resort due to risk of incurable infection, and a simple scrape on the knee will result in death. It's not an exaggeration; unless we catch up the these evolving bacteria with new drugs, we may enter a true post-antibiotic era.

But cheap steak and bacon bro.

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

Shit...I just purchased some pork tenderloins from Costco...I couldn't turn down the price.

Fuck you TS for making me sweat now.

 

[BJ@LW&WW]

we should just let micro-organisms win imo. let the earth go back to a simpler life.

 

[lts5025]

 

[IDL]

We need to create self replicating nano-bots to enter into combat with this new strain of Superbacteria

 

[dontsnitch]

Shit...I just purchased some pork tenderloins from Costco...I couldn't turn down the price.

Fuck you TS for making me sweat now.

Cook it well done, and it also gives you an excuse to wash it down with Whiskey. I'd go and buy some more.

 

[Rod1]

We need to create self replicating nano-bots to enter into combat with this new strain of Superbacteria

Or simply start regulating the use of antibiotics on livestock as humans.

 

[Rod1]

Cook it well done, and it also gives you an excuse to wash it down with Whiskey. I'd go and buy some more.

Its not the meat that its contaminated its the farmers and their workers, they put insane amounts of antibiotics on cattle, create superbacteria and when they get sick they go to the hospital and spread their germs all over the way.

 

[Mark Hunts FIST]

Hell yeah we we should be concerned about it.
I would say the reason it's not discussed as much here is because there's not a political aspect to it.
The ebola debate centered on allowing people to come into the country from nations infected with Ebola.


But yeah on a large scale this could be much worse.

 

[dontsnitch]

Its not the meat that its contaminated its the farmers and their workers, they put insane amounts of antibiotics on cattle, create superbacteria and when they get sick they go to the hospital and spread their germs all over the way.

You mess with nature to make extra dollars, and that's what you get...

 

[KILL KILL]

Saw it on the news. dat der Zika and dat der super bug be creepin up in the Mericas.

Hopefully, we find a way to combat both, quickly.

 

[ryan3434]

This is actually a serious issue. I guess in order to gain any real media attention a black person or a muslim needs to be discriminated against. Who cares about a lowly uncurable bacteria.

So bacteria on white violence can't even make the news?! Just how far down on the pyramid of protection are we. Lol