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2009-08-15 Science & Technology

Antibiotic-Destroying Superbug Found In Britain

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-08-15 14:17|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 A new superbug that is resistant to all antibiotics has been brought into Britain by patients having surgery abroad, Government scientists said.

So, like, if the NHS is so good why do people go abroad for this work? /rhetorical question.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-15 16:21|| 2009-08-15 16:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Another way "political correctness" might kill us all. It would probably be against the law to "discriminate" against someone arriving from India who has had an organ transplant. It is only a matter of time before such bugs run rampant globally because somehow it is "wrong" to isolate people with dangerous diseases.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-08-15 17:22|| 2009-08-15 17:22|| Front Page Top

#3 ...patients who have traveled to India and Pakistan...

Let's go get some surgery on the cheap by traveling to India and Pakistan, which can be nothing but the equivalent of a living petri dish if proper surgical and hospital care protocols are not followed.

It's like buying a cheap parachute.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-08-15 18:03|| 2009-08-15 18:03|| Front Page Top

#4 In large part the problem is the structure of the drug regulatory system in the USA and internationally.

The money is in diseases of affluence, so that's where the research is. Little money is spent on researching new antibiotics.

You can thank the United Nations for this problem, because they made international drug patents unenforceable.

No drug company is going to spend serious money on new antibiotics to have their work immediately ripped off in the developing world.

Posted by phil_b 2009-08-15 19:25|| 2009-08-15 19:25|| Front Page Top

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