6d ago

'Nightmare bacteria' (Bacteria that are difficult to treat due to the so-called NDM gene) cases are increasing in the US

'Nightmare bacteria' cases are increasing in the US

6d ago

apnews.com /article/cdc-nightmare-bacteria-ndm-gene-95c40aae486e82a54efb16b965ee88b3

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6d ago

'Nightmare bacteria' (Bacteria that are difficult to treat due to the so-called NDM gene) cases are increasing in the US

apnews.com /article/cdc-nightmare-bacteria-ndm-gene-95c40aae486e82a54efb16b965ee88b3

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The US government still have scientists left? No problem, I'm sure RFK Jr. will fix that momentarily.
- Strong dose of prayer and a good session of getting mad at things (basically everything) they don't understand.
"unfinished or unnecessary prescriptions that didn’t kill the germs made them stronger"
They left out the part where livestock on feed lots are constantly fed antibiotics to prevent illness in animals keep in crowded conditions knee deep in shit.
Well, there goes THAT report...
"unfinished or unnecessary prescriptions that didn’t kill the germs made them stronger"
They left out the part where livestock on feed lots are constantly fed antibiotics to prevent illness in animals keep in crowded conditions knee deep in shit.
What are you talking about? There are no diseases in USA
- Right? All the bleach we injected in 2020 extincted all the diseases
  /s
  
  I was taking an ATLA angle but sure. I can work with this.
  The bleach helped but the ivermectin, wow. That was the stuff.
the gene NDM is new dheli metallo-beta lactamase, its designed to neutralized carbapenem based drugs,(which are usually the drugs that have been hailed as "resistance to antibiotic resistance bacteria) because the molecule was supposedly resistant to the enzymes that e coli, and klebisella produce that neutralizeantibiotics, but they evolved a way to even deal with this.
- Evolution is a tricky bitch when bacteria have a new generation every 15 minutes or so
- This is unfortunately just the reality when we're dealing with organisms with orders of magnitude faster reproduction and selection than us. Maybe the proposed bacteriophage treatments will be better since those can evolve too, but we'll probably still have to constantly engineer them otherwise we'll get periods when bacteriophages work and periods when it doesn't, not to mention the extremely slim but never actually zero chance that bacteriophages will figure out how to infect eukaryotic cells from the billions of close contact with animal tissue when we actually start using them as mainstream medicine.
This bitch can’t spread fast enough lol
- If only there was a vaccine..
- You'd be surprised what bacteria are capable of. Sure they may not spread as easily through the air like coronaviruses but even spreading through surface contact can get out of control really fast in an urban area when millions of people touch the same surfaces every day and then touch their eyes/mouth.
  
  This reminds me of the time I was at Disney land and remember watching a kid in one of those really long lines that wind back and forth.. the kid was just standing there rocking back and forth as their parents were distracted and talking. The kid was there straight up licking the pole and dragging their tongue back and forth over like a 1 foot section.. needless to say I was mortified.

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