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Scientists Fear Chinese ‘Superbugs’

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Posted on Feb 6, 2010
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The more antibiotics are used to fight disease, the more the bugs fight back with resistant strains.

Leading scientists are criticizing Chinese doctors and farmers for what they believe is a reckless overuse of antibiotics in both the medical and agricultural industries, which, they argue, has led to an explosion of resistant “superbugs” endangering global health. —JCL

The Telegraph:

China’s reckless use of antibiotics in the health system and agricultural production is unleashing an explosion of drug resistant superbugs that endanger global health, according to leading scientists.

Chinese doctors routinely hand out multiple doses of antibiotics for simple maladies like [. . .] sore throats and the country’s farmers’ excessive dependence on the drugs has tainted the food chain.

Studies in China show a “frightening” increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also know as MRSA. There are warnings that new strains of antibiotic-resistant bugs will spread quickly through international air travel and internation food sourcing.

“We have a lot of data from Chinese hospitals and it shows a very frightening picture of high-level antibiotic resistance,” said Dr Andreas Heddini of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control.

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By MRSA, March 14, 2010 at 6:22 pm Link to this comment
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It’s awful what MRSA can to do people. Check out some of these pictures of what it did to for UFC heavyweight champion Kevin Randleman: 

http://www.staph-infection-pictures.com/mrsa-pictures.php
—WARNING: graphic pictures

I seriously hope they find a cure to this disease!

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By WykydRed, February 8, 2010 at 12:26 pm Link to this comment

Well, three things wrong with “eugenicists”:
1. The Ethiopia “involuntary” spaying of females is a deliberate act of human atrocity that require a lot of people needing to be very, very dead under the all-encompassing phrase, “inducing deliberate genocide”. Yes, everyone involved, down to the Americans who sold them that crap needs to be publicly executed. But, intentional atrocity.

2. “Eugenics” have, thanks to the Nazis, come to be known as a hideous thing practiced by white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed morons who think in terms of “Master Race”. One hair color to rule them all. It is not.

Eugenics is merely the practice of CHOOSING to not have offspring based solely on the practitioners knowledge of genetic defects. Not Nazi enforcement. Eugenics have existed since mankind dropped the flippers and grew enormous teeth for no good reason. It’s more human beings know a) they carry bad things in their bloodline that should not be passed onto any progeny and b) for the specific purpose of NOT putting additional burden on the tribe (society in general). The Eugenics Society still exists in England, and they don’t FORCE people to join or sterilize themselves so they don’t breed weak children that will be a burden on society and may eventually pass along very bad characteristics to later offspring. It was and is meant to be a personal commitment to keeping the gene pool sturdy instead of watching it slide slowly into downfall. That’s all!

Not a crime, not enforced, and yes, when looked at in logic and common sense without enforcement, better for society and resources as a whole. (Call me cold-hearted, but when something horrible happens to wipe out society and leave few survivors with limited resources, we’ll be drowning babies born with serious defects in no time at all. Loud snoring due to bad sinuses is not a “serious” defect. Asthma is.)

3. Purposeful. That one word differentiates what you’re talking of, grumpynyker, and giving people highly concentrated doses of antibiotics mixed with Lysol and liquid soap environments that created the Super Bugs that kill people. Yes, our American government has hundreds of locations that breed microscopic killers that wipe out millions. But, Super Bugs are created by “accident” by people in health care who pretty much will give patients anything to “cure” them and by patients not taking their full prescription of anti-biotic and peeing very aggressive and highly determined-to-survive sicknesses into the common water.

These little bastards get stronger because people are stupidly afraid to die, particularly in America. That too is a responsibility to the human race as well as the planet that harbors us. And no, unless there’s a bone sticking out of someplace it shouldn’t be, I don’t use health care. It’s my responsibility to die and make room and I intend to without pissing poisons and half-twisted micro-organisms into the world.

I don’t like people much, so I wouldn’t mind being responsible for killing off few million of them, but there is the planet and the animals to consider, and I think I’ve pretty much screwed them up in hair dye alone.

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By grumpynyker, February 7, 2010 at 9:06 am Link to this comment
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Don’t forget your friendly eugenicists in Israel
sterilizing female Ethiopians via Depo Provera shots.

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By WykydRed, February 7, 2010 at 6:21 am Link to this comment

Yeah…Like America hasn’t been doing it for the last 25 years and have “accidentally” designed drug-resistant strains of head colds that can kill entire coasts. (Yawn) ohhh, bad China! Terrible China!

I hope someone comes up with the bumper sticker “Our SuperBugs can eat your SuperBugs for lunch!”

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By johannes, February 7, 2010 at 3:12 am Link to this comment

Monsanto and friends, the real killers, little bid of this and a little bid of that in your food, before you know you are standing stif from all this poiseness food.

We in Europe try to eat different, but it is a happy few happening, for most people its to expensive, its a wonderfull world wath have they done to our live and livelihood, is this maby a way to wipe us out.

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By G.Anderson, February 7, 2010 at 12:41 am Link to this comment

LOL…..after decades of saturating our food with every antibotic known to man, exposing hamburger to carbon monoxide so it stays red long after it would have turned green, pumping our dairy cows with growth hormone so they can produce toxic milk, hormones in meat and eggs, then moving production over seas so they wouldn’t have to worry about any regulation at all, since inspectors couldn’t keep up with it, especially since the number of inspectors were cut. (all perfectly legal.)

It’s a little late in the day to come up with concerns like these.

Where were these leading Scientists when American’s were poisoning American’s, or does it only matter when we’re being poisoned by someone else?

I guess so…

Anyway food now is a kind of intelligence test… If you can find healthy food, and avoid poisoned food, then you might not get cancer or a degnerative disease.

If you do get a degerative disease and aren’t killed by the treatments of big pharma, since they run and own the FDA as a sort of business expense. Then you might get a chance to change your lifestyle, and once again, avoid those things that are killing you, all of which are perfectly legal..

Meanwhile, the FDA will do it’s damdest to try and outlaw vitamin B6, John McCain is ready to help them. Just you wait and see.

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By liecatcher, February 6, 2010 at 10:34 pm Link to this comment

SCIENTISTS FEAR CHINESE ‘SUPERBUGS’

This is the most hypocritical & useless article posted
here in the U.S., home of the Agrichemical terrorists
who have destroyed our food supply, wiped out countless
bee colonies with their genetically modified seeds of
deception, & polluted our water supplies.

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By EJH, February 6, 2010 at 2:49 pm Link to this comment

The China-as-bogeyman stories are getting tiresome.  Is
American just setting up their next great enemy in case
people grow tired of murdering Muslims?  Also,
regarding overuse of antibiotics leading to increased
resistance, maybe these critics of China should look
into the American poultry industry.
http://theunpeople.blogspot.com/

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By ACM, February 6, 2010 at 1:24 pm Link to this comment
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is this post racist? I mean other countries like the US probably use their fair share of antibiotics and pesticides to keep their cattle and crops bug free. Its a hard problem to solve because an alternative would be organic foods, but first, its super expensive, and second, I don’t think Organic foods can sustain such a huge population like China or the US

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