08-19-2010, 07:12 PM
(08-19-2010, 06:51 PM)Goat Wrote: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/67066,news...-coli-mrsa
Quote:http://www.asianwindow.com/tag/ndm-1/
We’ve only got ourselves to blame for the indestructible Indian superbug
From Daily Mail: Knowing what we know now, if we could go back in time we would have prescribed antibiotics sparingly and only when they were really needed.
If we had done that, we may not have been facing the prospect of superbugs for the next 100 years.
Instead, antibiotics have been massively overprescribed, thrown willy-nilly at patients by harassed and time-pressed doctors for a host of minor ailments – often coughs and colds that aren’t even caused by bacteria in the first place.
As Professor Enright says: ‘Every time you throw enough antibiotics at enough people, you encourage the evolution of drug-resistant mutants.’
This happens everywhere, from GP surgeries in Britain and the U.S. – where antibiotics are the medicine of choice for just about every minor childhood snuffle – to India, where antibiotics are available cheaply over the counter without a prescription
