Antibiotic Resistant Superbug Found In Pennsylvania

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26 May 2016, 3:25 pm

The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.. http://tiny.iavian.net/agkk

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26 May 2016, 4:49 pm

Eastern-European countries have been using phage therapy for a long time, perhaps it would prove useful for fighting superbugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

(But Big Pharma wants new antibiotics, because these make good money. So the chances of phage therapy making it into conventional medicine are slim.)



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27 May 2016, 3:01 pm

nurseangela wrote:
The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.. http://tiny.iavian.net/agkk

God help us.


He very well may be, in fact, helping us.

His design is so intelligent that it contains within it fail safes to correct all the havoc the created can wreak.


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27 May 2016, 7:48 pm

Earthling wrote:
Eastern-European countries have been using phage therapy for a long time, perhaps it would prove useful for fighting superbugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

(But Big Pharma wants new antibiotics, because these make good money. So the chances of phage therapy making it into conventional medicine are slim.)

Antibiotics don't make much money, that is why big pharma doesn't want to come up with new antibiotics, and there hasnt been any new ones in 30 years.. Governments need to fund antibiotic research, even $5 billion is chump change for the US and could result in one or two new antibiotics. Governments need to ban the use of antibiotics in farming and stop doctors from over prescribing them and stop giving them out to viral infections.



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27 May 2016, 8:26 pm

The elites don't want antibiotics because they are heavily invested in population control, we're a bunch of useless eaters to them and an inconvenience once full automation happens.