Nutrition Science News
Posted in Health and Nutrition on 06/05/2010 03:34 pm by Steven Nerenberg
Why are ‘superbugs,’ TB, leprosy and other pestilences are invading U.S.?
Americans have long taken the wonders of medical science for granted, watching as disease after disease has been conquered with antibiotics, vaccines, better nutrition and pharmaceutical “miracle drugs.” But today, the magic isn’t working ? Do you think Judement is upon the earth ?
India is battling its worst outbreak of avian influenza, which has spread to 13 of West Bengal’s 19 districts. The densely populated state is adjacent to Bangladesh, itself trying to control a major outbreak of bird flu, and has millions of backyard fowl.
Indonesia’s death toll from bird flu tops 100
MSRA-15 and 16, are thought to be more transmissible than the others, and account for 96% of MRSA bloodstream infections in the UK.
At present, these strains thought to be rare in other countries, but are spreading. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2572841.stm
Martin Blaser of New York University, of the Infectious Diseases Society of America “These bugs are not waiting*
#1 microbes are perenially mutating such that they become resistant to antimicrobial drugs and new ones need to be developed.
#2 World travel, immigration, and other factors (including bird migration patterns in the case of avian flu) cause the spread of epidemic diseases from one country to another. The avian flu is a virus that affects fowl but is mutating such that it is infecting humans (it is similar to the virus that resulted in the 1918 flu epidemic).
#3 Human beings have a habit of expanding into more remote areas of the world and coming into contact with microbes, parasites, and what not there that, like humans, sometimes enjoy exotic cuisine (in this case the human becomes the new exotic cuisine of the indigenous microbe).
#4 Poor hygiene (handwashing) practices among the population and health care workers account for the transmission of disease.
#5 Unsafe sex practices account for the transmission of disease among folks of all sexual persuasions.
#6 Immunodeficiencies because of poverty and other factors make certain populations more vulnerable to disease.
Finally, it only seems really catastrophic and unprecedented because the media makes it seem so, but epidemics have been the scourge of humanity and will continue to be forever. It is an aspect of the cycle of life.
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