Publish Date: March 6, 2013
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head Dr. Thomas Frieden calls them “nightmare bacteria” — and they are showing up in more and more U.S. hospitals.
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) showed up in 4.6 percent of hospitals that track infections in 2012, compared to just 1.2 percent in 2001, according to CDC data. That family of bacteria normally exists in peaceful symbiosis in all our intestines, but when an infection with antibiotic resistant germs occurs, it is extraordinarily hard to eradicate. So, it is particularly disturbing that carbapenems, which were introduced in 1985 to address bacterial resistance to standard beta-lactam antibiotics, are beginning to fail.
CRE is resistant to even powerful antibiotics — and, incredibly, can pass on this resistance to other bacteria. It thrives in hospitals — and kills around 40 percent of all patients whose blood it infects….To Read More….
My Take - This is another example that mankind cannot survive without more and more advanced technology. Take that technology away and we would see billions die. Whether it is pharmaceuticals, pesticides, vaccinations, modern farming, or any of the many things the activists are against, without them and continued research into more and better components of all of these advancements we would be back into the dark ages. That is historically foundational. The claims by the 'back to nature' activists are antithetical to all historical fact.
I have consistently pointed out that being right is based on two things. Everything we are told has an historical foundation, and everything we are told should bear some resemblance to what we see going on in reality. If what we are told fails in either category it is wrong! All that is left to do then is find out why. "The human race has never existed in a state of harmony with nature.....years of archeological and ethnographic research have shown that the imaginative conceptions associated with the Noble Savage are completely wrong. Before the advent of civilization people endured disease, violence, hunger, and profound poverty."
The activists, and misanthropes such as Rousseau, who wish us to become primitives once again fail in both categories, and have done so consistently. So why do we listen to them?
The activists, and misanthropes such as Rousseau, who wish us to become primitives once again fail in both categories, and have done so consistently. So why do we listen to them?
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