Destroy the multidrug resistant disease before it destroys us.
Today, after all our years
of medical advancement and our treatment with pharmaceutical wonder drugs, disease
after disease attacks us because of multidrug resistant cells forming in our
bodies.
Ironically, the cause of this
evolution of drug resistant cells was our excessive use of various prescription
drugs given to us by our own health providers.
Of course, the drugs received approval from the Food and Drug
Administration, FDA, who knew better and did nothing for years.
Multidrug resistant cells evolved
from our greed to pump more and more medicine into the patients. The next trend was to create prescription
medication needed for life by the patient, thus guaranteeing more cash flow for
the doctor, dentist, hospital, clinic, health diagnostic centers, drug
companies, and insurance companies.
When humans started dying
from overdoses and then from multidrug resistant diseases, the moneychangers
shifted tactics and started prescribing the same antibiotics for animals when
kept in confined quarters. Well that
included cows, chickens, and pigs.
Today more antibiotics sell
for animal feed than to treat humans. However,
the saturation of animals with antibiotics has now made animals a greater
source of the dangerous antibiotics entering the human body, than treatment
from our doctors.
These are recent headlines
this year.
Multidrug-resistant Shigellosis Spreading in the United States
Indian Woman Being Treated in U.S.
Outbreak of drug-resistant infection could kill
80,000 in UK
Understanding CRE, the 'nightmare' superbug that
contributed to 2 deaths in L.A.
Nations Failing to Combat 'Global Threat' of
Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs: WHO
Dr. Keiji Fukuda, WHO's
assistant director-general for health security. "All types of
microbes—including many viruses and parasites—are becoming resistant to
medicines. Of particularly urgent concern is the development of bacteria that
are progressively less treatable by available antibiotics. This is happening in
all parts of the world, so all countries must do their part to tackle this
global threat."
These are some of the multidrug resistant diseases
now in circulation.
The Original Superbug: Staphylococcus Aureus - MRSA
Almost everyone's heard of
MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, yet few people understand
just how pervasive the original superbug has become.
Roughly one in 50 people
carries a strain of staph resistant to common antibiotics, according to the
National Institutes of Health. If the bug invades a wound, it can cause an
infection that is minor and localized, as in a pimple, or serious and
widespread, involving the heart, lungs, blood and bones.
"MRSA continues to be
the biggest threat because it could become more widespread," said Dr.
William Schaffner, chair of prevention at Vanderbilt University
Medical Center
MRSA infections usually
strike elderly hospital inpatients or nursing home residents. But the number of
MRSA cases out in the community is on the rise, according to the NIH. The disease spreads between people working out
at the gym through contaminated towels or equipment, and passed between
children at day care facilities.
Most forms of cancer
Ebola
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes HIV
infection and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Flu (Influenza)
Malaria
Meningitis
Pneumonia
Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Women (STDs)
Gonorrhea and Chlamydia
Tuberculosis (TB)
Diarrhea
The Food Borne Bugs: Escherichia
Coli and Salmonella
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Micrograph of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA, brown) surrounded by cellular debris
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Antimicrobial resistance: A growing health issue
The emergence of
drug-resistant microbes is not new or unexpected. Both natural causes and
societal pressures drive bacteria, viruses, parasites, and other microbes to
continually change in an effort to evade the drugs developed to kill them.
Natural causes
Like all organisms,
microbes undergo random genetic mutations, and these changes can enhance drug
resistance. Resistance to a drug arising by chance in just a few organisms can
quickly spread through rapid reproduction to entire populations of a microbe.
Societal pressures
Antimicrobial resistance
is fostered by the overuse and misuse of antimicrobial drugs in people as well
as animals; a lack of diagnostic tests to rapidly identify infectious agents;
and poor hand hygiene and infection control in healthcare and community settings.
Together, these forces
contribute to the problem of drug-resistant infections that are increasingly
difficult and costly to treat.
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA) bacteria, increasingly seen not only in hospitals and healthcare
settings (hospital acquired or HA-MRSA) but also in the wider community,
especially among people in close contact such as athletes (community associated
or CA-MRSA).
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE)
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci
(VRE) bacteria are resistant to vancomycin, an antibiotic regarded as a drug of
last resort.
Microbes increasingly
resistant to drugs
SOURCE: National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.
Antimicrobial (Drug) Resistance.
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So why am I trying to
upset you about the dangers in your life? Two reasons drive me. First, you need to be aware of how your
respected institutions have poisoned you, maybe not intentionally, but the
result is just as fatal.
Second, there are innovative projects underway across the nation to address the dangerous multi-drug resistant cells using natural herbs first used by the Chinese thousands of years ago.
Just as important,
researchers at a health clinic in Texas and at the Massachusetts General Hospital have recently announced results using a Chinese herbal compound to stop Ebola, and experiments are underway in other labs as well. American patients and the medical world need
to know the compound is in capsule form and seems to have been effective in treating many
multi-drug resistant diseases.
If, in fact, the runaway multi-drug
resistant diseases have become the Super Diseases of the 21st century, we must
arm our medical community with the most effective tools possible to save lives in spite of the mutation capability of the disease.
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