Super Bacteria: We are on the verge of a pandemic can not be stopped?
Lately I've been following a number of sources of news and information increasing attention to super bacteria. Today, I bring you some considerations that present a very daunting prospect.
With the discovery of antibiotics and improving humans finally left the era where simple infections killed thousands of people . Medicine could develop and create a whole system of combating these opponents , but the fact is that we've never been even close to winning this battle .
Bring here an excerpt found on the History Channel website:
" In 1928 , the discovery of penicillin , Alexander Fleming has warned about the possible short duration of the beneficial effect of antibiotics . Bacteria that previously could not resist the effects of penicillin , are now totally indifferent to its action . In less than 10 years , immune to an antibiotic bacterial strains grew from 0.5 % to 50 % terrifying . "
This basically means that every time we have to create stronger antibiotics to combat increasingly fortes.O bacteria problem is that the bacteria are winning the race and are rapidly becoming immune to antibiotics. To further complicate matters, the pharmaceutical industry has not received incentives for the production of new antibiotics ( there are medications that yield greater profit ) and the latter has already launched almost 4 years.
These bacteria called super thrive in the most exposed to various medications and illnesses environment, the hospital . The problem is that they are getting out of this place and contaminate schools, academies and institutions. In the U.S. studies have shown that these take about twenty thousand lives every year by simply fail to eliminate them ... And the number is increasing.
This problem would not emergency if our culture does things got worse . Currently self-medication and the abuse of prescription drugs many have accelerated this process of creating resistance in bacteria . As if that alone was not enough , we use principles of antibiotics in agriculture and animal husbandry to accelerate these fattening .
As the excerpt from NBC News shows , the situation is complicated :
" The last antibiotic was ceftarolina launched in 2010 . Only took a year until the first staph germ ( type of bacteria ) arose with resistance to its effects "
And do not think our reality is far away. We already have signs of these bacteria arrival here in Brazil , like the G1 website reports :
" ... The Norte Fluminense Rio de Janeiro , comes the first confirmed case of a patient with a modified by NDM - 1 gene , known as a superbug , which is resistant to antibiotics bacteria . Confirmation was the State Department of Health
The superbug negates the effects of antibiotics , including those who are more used to fight infections by multiresistant microorganisms . "
Fact is, I'm not bringing such information conspiracy sites or unreliable sources . Such data have been shown by organizations such as the CDC ( Center for Disease Control ) and the U.S. mainstream media presenting concise and compiled data from several scientific studies .
The trend is that the lack of antibiotics they can compete with these super bugs us to use cocktails of antibiotics and more toxic substances, of which we still have no control of side effects .
We are close to return to an era in which penicillin did not exist , where a simple shredded knee can become infected and lead to death ? We run the risk of a pandemic like the Spanish flu in 1918 that killed about 50 million people ?
These are the questions that may unfortunately receive a " yes" answer .
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