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My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
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Re: My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
#12...for most superbugs, health departments and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) don’t track who acquires them, nor do they know how many recovered or died. The most recent CDC report estimates that 23,000 people die in the U.S. each year from superbug infections, based on data from 2010. But a recent report estimated that at least 153,000 people died from superbug infections the same year, an es…
The point of her article wasn’t to push despair, but rather to urge the Western medical establishment to get moving on phage research. Bacteriophages as a solution to our antibiotic resistance crisis have been largely ignored in the West due to unpatentability, research mainly performed in Eastern Europe, etc — but her story is that a bacteriophage cocktail saved her husband’s life where antibiotics failed...and the…
From the article:
Alternatives to antibiotics are desperately needed.
She's not pushing phage research per se, just research into alternatives generally.
Re: My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
#13Any recommendations on what an individual could do to help? Organizations to donate to? Challenges that could be tackled by a startup? Promising companies to consider investing in? Also, can anybody explain why the CDC doesn’t mandate reporting?
Call your members of congress and demand that they ask the CDC that question.
Re: My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
#14Any recommendations on what an individual could do to help? Organizations to donate to? Challenges that could be tackled by a startup? Promising companies to consider investing in? Also, can anybody explain why the CDC doesn’t mandate reporting?
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Re: My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
#15One factor that will return once people start to panic is table manners, many of which seem fussy (separate saving utensils, a butter knife, not putting used utensils onto the table) but actually evolved for hygiene reasons.
Sadly of course like any complex behavior it was also hijacked for sumptuary purposes (grape shears, egg spoons, not finishing your plate in some cultures) but I hold out a hope (probably in vail) that those kinds of rules won't be revived.
Re: My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
#16One factor that will return once people start to panic is table manners, many of which seem fussy (separate saving utensils, a butter knife, not putting used utensils onto the table) but actually evolved for hygiene reasons. Sadly of course like any complex behavior it was also hijacked for sumptuary purposes (grape shears, egg spoons, not finishing your plate in some cultures) but I hold out a hope (probably in vail…
> many of which seem fussy (separate saving utensils, a butter knife, not putting used utensils onto the table)
Fussy? Aren’t these just common sense? I wouldn’t consider them to even be “table manners”.
Re: My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
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Re: My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
#18...for most superbugs, health departments and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) don’t track who acquires them, nor do they know how many recovered or died. The most recent CDC report estimates that 23,000 people die in the U.S. each year from superbug infections, based on data from 2010. But a recent report estimated that at least 153,000 people died from superbug infections the same year, an es…
To me, the really scary thing about antibiotic resistance is not necessarily random infections in the hospital (as bad as that is) but the fact that antibiotics are what made surgery possible, and if they don’t work, all these medical procedures we’ve gotten used to as harmless suddenly carry a very serious risk-reward tradeoff. Imagine C-sections, biopsies, hip replacements, etc. all having a one-in-four chance of d…
agree. and my next fear is that all of the medical establishment, suppliers, and practitioners who depend upon surgical procedures for their profitability downplay the additional risks and continue to encourage all of us to undergo surgery
Re: My Husband Became a Poster Child of the Post-Antibiotic Era
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point of her article wasn’t to push despair, but rather to urge the Western medical establishment to get moving on phage research. Bacteriophages as a solution to our antibiotic resistance crisis have been largely ignored in the West due to unpatentability, research mainly performed in Eastern Europe, etc — but her story is that a bacteriophage cocktail saved her husband’s life where antibiotics failed...and the…
From the article: Alternatives to antibiotics are desperately needed. She's not pushing phage research per se, just research into alternatives generally.
Did you stop reading there, by chance?