Antibiotics crackdown must be urgent priority:AMA
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Posted By: carbon20
Subject: Antibiotics crackdown must be urgent priority:AMA
Date Posted: April 16 2017 at 3:05pm
Antibiotics overuse could result in common illness becoming life threateningBy medical reporter http://www.abc.net.au/news/sophie-scott/167202" rel="nofollow - Sophie Scott and the National Reporting Team's http://www.abc.net.au/news/meredith-griffiths/3614520" rel="nofollow - Meredith Griffiths Updated about 2 hours ago http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-17/hand-holds-tablets/8445716" rel="nofollow">  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-17/hand-holds-tablets/8445716" rel="nofollow - Australian health authorities are warning the world faces a post-antibiotic era where simple childhood illnesses could again become deadly. Key points:
The death of a woman in the United States in January from an infection that could not be treated by any antibiotics has left Australian health experts "deeply alarmed". In a strongly worded editorial in the Medical Journal of Australia, president of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases, Professor Cheryl Jones, said the woman's death "may herald a post-antibiotic era in which high-level antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widespread, meaning that common pathogens will be untreatable". She said if that happened, all areas of healthcare would be affected.
Australia has one of the highest rates of antibiotic use in the world. Antibiotics crackdown must be urgent priority: AMAhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2016-04-28/antibiotic-resistance-explained-why-your-decisions-matter/7339062" rel="nofollow - Antibiotic resistance explainedhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2016-04-28/antibiotic-resistance-explained-why-your-decisions-matter/7339062" rel="nofollow"> http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2016-04-28/antibiotic-resistance-explained-why-your-decisions-matter/7339062" rel="nofollow - Why your decisions matter in the fight against superbugs. While the Federal Government has introduced measures to curb the use of antibiotics, experts said more needed to be done to limit the unrestrained use of antibiotics and to monitor superbugs coming into Australia from international travellers or imported food. "A list of tangible actions against each of the drivers of antimicrobial resistance, co-ordinated across human and animal health and agriculture, must be an urgent priority," Professor Jones said. The Australian Medical Association has called for the urgent establishment of an Australian National Centre for Disease Control, similar to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with a focus on current and emerging disease threats. Health experts will gather to discuss antibiotic resistance at a summit in Melbourne on June 29. What are antibiotics?
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Posted By: EdwinSm,
Date Posted: April 16 2017 at 11:32pm
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Will a flu pandemic arrive before the antibiotic resistant diseases become a major player in human mortality rates?? Both worry me. |
Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: April 17 2017 at 1:39am
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Good luck with that. Quite apart from human over-prescription, they've been an accepted part of farming since the fifties when we first started dosing food animals with antibiotics as growth promoters. It's likely that the majority of all antibiotics used in the US are fed to livestock - and I'm sure the situation is worse in countries like China. The golden age of antibiotics is coming to an end unfortunately. ------------- "Buy it cheap. Stack it deep" "Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue, will be tragically wrong." Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary. |
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: April 17 2017 at 2:21am
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i dont worry about any of the worlds problems,to many of them , i just like to be aware of all the possibitites that could wipe us out , that way i wont be running round like "headless chuck"(chuck =chicken aussie slang) when the comet,pandemic,Nucular war ,climate change ,car accident,terrorist attack,plane crash or OLD AGE  .......TAKES ME TO VALHALA....... LOL lifes to short to worry about it ,it might never happen...... nearly time for BEER O'CLOCK here in OZ cheers all to a long and happy life
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Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: April 17 2017 at 2:28am
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be better to have the pandemic first that way the antibiotics will last longer, especially if its a "SLATE WIPER"  always look on the bright side of things ,every cloud has a silver lining.....lol ------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖 Marcus Aurelius |
Posted By: EdwinSm,
Date Posted: April 17 2017 at 10:25pm
The following was posted on another forum I am on, complete with notes to explain some of the local trade names and use of English.... Cheers everyone  This morning I was in luck and was able to buy two boxes of "VIC BITTER" (a beer from Melbourne Victoria) cheap at the local bottle o. I placed the boxes on the front seat and headed back home. I stopped at a service station (gas pump) where a drop-dead gorgeous blonde in a short skirt was filling up her car at the next pump. She glanced at the two boxes of VB, bent over and leaned in my passenger window, and said in a sexy voice, "I'm a big believer in barter, handsome. Would you be interested in trading sex for beer?" ... I thought for a few seconds and asked, "What kind of beer 'ya got?" |
carbon20 wrote:Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: April 18 2017 at 5:39am
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lol , EdwinSm, spot on Matey ------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖 Marcus Aurelius |
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: April 18 2017 at 2:42pm
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Disclosure statementChristopher Butler receives funding from a range of publicly funded research`granting bodies for his research into antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance. Some of his studies have received unconditional support form industrial partners including Alere and CHR-Hansen. Chris Butler is affiliated with the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Oliver van Hecke does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above. Partners http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-oxford-1260" rel="nofollow"> http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-oxford-1260" rel="nofollow - University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. http://theconversation.com/au/partners" rel="nofollow - View all partners http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" rel="nofollow">
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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under Creative Commons licence.Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: February 14 2018 at 1:58pm
New antibiotic family discovered in dirt
US scientists have discovered a new family of antibiotics in soil samples. The natural compounds could be used to combat hard-to-treat infections, the team at Rockefeller University hopes. Tests show the compounds, called malacidins, annihilate several bacterial diseases that have become resistant to most existing antibiotics, including the superbug MRSA. Experts say the work, published in Nature Microbiology, offers fresh hope in the antibiotics arms race. Drug-resistant diseases are one of the biggest threats to global health. They kill around 700,000 people a year, and new treatments are urgently needed. Drugs from dirtSoil is teeming with millions of different micro-organisms that produce lots of potentially therapeutic compounds, including new antibiotics. Dr Sean Brady's team at New York's Rockefeller University has been busy unearthing them. They used a gene sequencing technique to analyse more than 1,000 soil samples taken from across the US. When they discovered malacidins in many of the samples, they had a hunch it was an important find. They tested the compound on rats that they had given MRSA and it eliminated the infection in skin wounds. The researchers are now working to improve the drug's effectiveness in the hope that it can be developed into a real treatment for people. Dr Brady said: "It is impossible to say when, or even if, an early stage antibiotic discovery like the malacidins will proceed to the clinic. "It is a long, arduous road from the initial discovery of an antibiotic to a clinically used entity." Prof Colin Garner, from Antibiotic Research UK, said finding new antibiotics to treat gram-positive infections like MRSA was good news, but would not address the most pressing need. "Our concern are the so called gram-negative bacteria which are difficult to treat and where resistance is on the increase," he said. "Gram-negative bacteria
cause pneumonia, blood and urinary tract infections as skin infections.
We need new antibiotics to treat this class." Source and stock photo: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43032602" rel="nofollow - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43032602 Wikipedia already have a detailed article. Hpefully it is too recent for some helpful soul to have tampered with it yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacidin" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacidin http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43032602" rel="nofollow - ------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 14 2018 at 6:11pm
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Here we go again...American getting the blame! Go to Europe and you can go to any corner drug store and get antibiotics for any thing you have!!! Blame Europe! |
Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: February 15 2018 at 3:10am
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'No point in blaming the sick or the doctors until it is massively reduced in the farming sector - ESPECIALLY IN CHINA. ------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving. |
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: February 15 2018 at 2:09pm
its to late............................. ------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖 Marcus Aurelius |
Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: February 15 2018 at 3:32pm
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I agree, carbon. ------------- "Buy it cheap. Stack it deep" "Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue, will be tragically wrong." Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary. |
Posted By: EdwinSm,
Date Posted: February 15 2018 at 10:29pm
When working in the garden I love the feel of earth* on my hands...maybe my body is telling me it is good for me....whoever I have not felt the urge to orally ingest it    * here British English sounds so much more positive than the American English of "dirt". |