Comments on: "Superbug" Kills NYC Schoolboy

12-Year-Old 7th Grader Succumbs To Drug-Resistant Staph Infection

[hissteps4u]

One of the Many reasons this has developed is the Over use of Medications by people who insist on Antibiotics for ailments which can not benifit by their use YET they insist on prescriptions and DR''s who fear loosing Patients fulfil their wishs all to regularly by giving in to their requests.

As a retired Nurse I see this all to often. Demand verses need and The Pharmacuticle companies play a part in this through their ever increasing advertizement of drugs to sell it is such big Business now we are killing ourselves by listening to them and in requesting medicans which we dont need and wont benifit from and bringing about strains of diseases which are resistant to the medicin now and what use to be something we can cure is now something we can barley manage and will soon loose the opportunity to cure.

The Public is Ignorant of the truth and the physicians are stupid to continue to follow the whims of a demanding public for antibiotics for sniffles to sneezes and DR''s give in all to easily for the Money. Its just the plain and simple truth

[paintballzr]

Go see the movie BUG and see what unneeded paranoia will do for you... These days there''s always one virus or another to fear, whats a few more! So just keep practicing good hygiene, but at the same time balance it with a recreational dive into some dirt.

[bks59]

I had to look it up and this is what i found in Wikepedia:

This article is about a biological infectious particle; for other uses, see phage (disambiguation).

An artist''s rendering of an Enterobacteria phage T4.A bacteriophage (from ''bacteria'' and Greek phagein, ''to eat'') is any one of a number of viruses that infect bacteria. The term is commonly used in its shortened form, phage.

Typically, bacteriophages consist of an outer protein hull enclosing genetic material. The genetic material can be dsRNA, ssDNA, or dsDNA between 5 and 500 kilo base pairs long with either circular or linear arrangement. Bacteriophages are much smaller than the bacteria they destroy - usually between 20 and 200 nm in size.

They have been used for over 60 years as an alternative to antibiotics in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. They are now seen as a hope against multi drug resistant strains of many bacteria.

[krenz4]

furthermore, overuse of antibiotics has made some people (read: those with money who have all the money or coverage they need to take little Johnny or susie to the doctor every time they sniffle to get a prescription), Are the ones who are going to most sorry. they are wide open for infections of all kinds, what living in their sterile homes and living on Antibiotics!

[enlightenu]

"Phages work in direct contact with the infection, so they are applied directly to an open wound or biofilm e.g. sinuses, boils, interdental cavities and ulcers. There are very large numbers of individual successes, anecdotal evidence and case studies in the former USSR- including where other therapies had failed. Many researchers studying infectious diseases have little doubt that phage therapy has a contribution to make and will achieve mainstream medical relevance in the 21st century. Large clinical trials from Poland have reported the efficacy of phage therapy, and research continues because of the alarming rise of multiple antibiotic resistance worldwide. Phase 2 human clinical trials are nearing completion in a London hospital with ear infections, and Phase 1 clinical trials are taking place in Lubbock, Texas in a wound care context."
-from Wikipedia article

Phage therapy predates antibiotics, but antibiotics were more profitable, and phages were associated with "Commie medicine".

[krenz4]

We are going to see a resurgence of a lot more diseases and infections, as long as Americans are being urged to sterilize and disinfect everything we touch. Sure, handwashing is the best thing we can do to protect ourselves, but killing germs and sterilizing everything in the house is NOT a good idea. All these bacteria have an opportunity to adapt and become resistant or impervious to antibiotics and such. Anyone who looks at all the products being pushed on us through fear tactics, would have seen this coming a mile away!

[riggie3]

Being in the medical field, this is not hype..
The incidence of MRSA has exploded in the last 3 years. This is the real thing. We used to see it occasionally, now we see it almost daily.

[oleander8]

West Nile scare stories have run their course, so have SARS stories, bird-flu virus and what-not...so the media has hung their sensationalism on Superbug killer staph infections. Rather than scaring the public why doesn''t the media focus on the overuse of antibiotics on the animals in the foodchain? Because that''s where the immunity is coming from.

[enlightenu]

There is a very not well known treatment to fight bacteriological infections when they are drug resistant. It is called bacteriophage therapy, and the FDA and drug companies have conspired to keep this quiet and illegal because it is so cheap and effective. Basically all it does is utilize specific viruses that consume only bacteria to destroy the infection. When the bacteria is gone the virus dies off. Simple, and cheap. But you would have to travel overseas to be treated. Remember, if you contract MRSA or anything else penicillin resistant, look to bacteriophage therapy. It will save your life.

[rf36]

Antibacterial this and sanitizing that. This is what it gets you...drug-resistant bugs. Resist the urge to use every cleaner and soap you can find that claims to be "antibacterial." You''re not protecting your family, you''re putting them in greater danger. The stuff that kills 99.9% of bacteria leaves the .1% that survive stronger and resistant to the product.