Comments on: Drug-Resistance Gene Hopping Between Superbug Strains in New Delhi Water

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:26:32 +0000

I hope I don’t have this virus I am going to the hospital to have it checked out tomorrow I pray to g-d its not me!

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By: dave chamberlin

dave chamberlin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:02:51 +0000

Reading the Science America link provides reasonable explanations rather than shrill ones. The cycle requires poor sanitation, and high temperatures. In India half of the population of 1.3, fully 650 million do not have flush toilets. Studies have also found that these genes are one million times more likely to species hop at high temperatures, which are only found in equatorial regions.

Mark Twain said “history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Up to about 1900 it was a terrible idea health wise for a northern European to visit the tropics. The death rate of British colonialists in India was up to 50% a year. I am quite sure these numbers will never return but I wonder if fear of super bugs will have an immense impact on tourism to these places.

I just hope that birth control limits our population more than malthusian misery does. I don’t like it when people say anyone deserves a horrible fate because we should have known better. Yes we should have known better but to reduce us to a herd waiting to be culled is unnecessarily cold.

By: Greg Brown

Greg Brown — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:33:35 +0000

We could be creating antibiotic resistant super bugs all over the developed world in our own bodies, our waterways and in the bodies of our livestock. Antibacterial chemicals such as Triclosan are not broken down and after being dumped down the drain have become prevalent in our waterways and drinking water etc. Bacteria of all types, when exposed to these chemicals, develop cross resistance to antibiotics. We also ingest and absorb these chemicals so super bugs can incubate inside our bowels. This likely occurs inside the bowels of wild and domestic animals as well. This could be a disaster in the making, right under our noses.

Check out this video from Alberta, Canada:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcJEUDhAuO0

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:31:12 +0000

This is a classical scenario being repeated time and time again. Rabbits were hap hazardly introduced into the Australian ecology and multiplied like,… well rabbits. It was pandemic until the population reached a point that mother nature took over and introduced a simple little ear mite and brought the numbers down to a more managable level. India is boasting thier population at being what, a quarter or a fifth of the world’s. This planet is way over populated by humans and mother natare will step in again and take care of business, just as she has done in the past.
Fight the super bugs all you want and yes, as a stereotypical mindless educated North American, do the fighting over seas, not on our soil, let that dam thing run ramped for a few years but then stop it before it takes hold over here. Just like Japan or Germany!
We have science and we have history and mother nature gave us both to harness at our own free will. We do have to educate our third world countries to keep what is going to kill us from rearing it’s ugly head. The bird flu in China is a prime example of that.
History will always repeat it self.

By: Dr Sri

Dr Sri — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:23:34 +0000

This is not the time to organise research to find out what is going on and how the bugs are hopping from one strain to another. We must act and be bold to say, yes lets find out how we can prevent the spread. In 1980s the bugs entered body through cuts, now through guts and is in the water and sewer not only in India but also in UK. We must stop this mud slinging and start listening to what we are saying. This is hard for people like me to be open because I do not enjoy spreading this message branded as “Negative” or “Pessimistic” nor do I want to believe what my subconscious mind has visualised. The only solution is to avoid coming in contact with the superbugs. If you don’t fancy getting mugged, please don’t go to Bronx (USA) or Brixton (UK) similarly avoid visiting health centres and hospitals.

By: Templar 7

Templar 7 — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:31:01 +0000

Here is a perfect example of why we shouln’t genetically modify cows’ milk to cirtain human genes,(To make the milk healthier for us), even though the intentions behind the idea seem right. What we will do is allow these genes to start species-hopping, creating a new wake of havoc upon humanity!!

The problem is….if they effect the whole worlds’ milk supply at once…there will probably be no control to compare it against…bah…not my problem, right? WRONG<.